ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,087, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for carrying out real-time PCR" was invented by Jochen Hoffmann (Renningen, Germany) and Tino Frank (Lucerne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for carrying out a process for an amplification of nucleic acids with sample nucleic acids and reference nucleic acids being amplified in separate reaction batches. Signals of the amplification are observed in real time. A number of amplification cycles and/or a duration of the amplification process are dynamically adjusted depending on the observed signals of the amplification."
The pat...