US Patent Issued to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on July 7 for "Self-priming hairpin-mediated isothermal amplification" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,203, issued on July 7, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Self-priming hairpin-mediated isothermal amplification" was invented by Hyun Gyu Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jayeon Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyo Yong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yujin Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a self-priming hairpin-mediated isothermal amplification (SP-HAMP) and, more specifically, to a hairpin probe having a self-priming structure, which is for detecting a target nucleic acid and can be used in the nucleic acid isothermal amplifica...