ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,740, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Roche Molecular Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Methods and compositions for nucleic acid detection" was invented by Mikael Kubista (Moelndal, Sweden) and Robert Sjoback (Partille, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, compositions, reaction mixtures, kits, and/or systems for producing a complementary sequence to a region in a target polynucleotide in a sample are provided. In some aspects, the methods, compositions, reaction mixtures, kits, and/or systems comprise subjecting the sample to a nucleic acid amplification reaction in a reaction mixture under conditions to yield the c...