US Patent Issued to Lex Diagnostics on Oct. 20 for "Systems and modules for nucleic acid amplification testing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,516, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Lex Diagnostics Ltd. (Melbourn, Great Britain).

"Systems and modules for nucleic acid amplification testing" was invented by Justin Rorke Buckland (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Alex Stokoe (Royston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems for nucleic acid amplification testing are provided. The systems comprise a consumable amplification module and a reader module for receiving the amplification module. The amplification module comprises: a reactor vessel for containing a test sample; a heater comprising a heater element in thermal contact with the reactor vessel and controllable ...