US Patent Issued to Quest Diagnostics Investments on July 14 for "Detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in biological samples" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,140, issued on July 14, was assigned to Quest Diagnostics Investments LLC (Secaucus, N.J.).

"Detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in biological samples" was invented by Lakshmi Nair (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Heather Vincent (Carrboro, N.C.), Huong Mai (Irvine, Calif.), Michelle Tabb (Santa Ana, Calif.) and Maurice Exner (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of identifying a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a sample wherein the methods involve detecting a S. aureus-specific nucleic acid sequence, mecA and mecC, in the sample. Kits for determining the pre...