ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,525, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SD BIOSENSOR INC. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Double-functional oligonucleotide comprising complementary nucleotide sequence, mis-matched nucleotide sequence, reporter, and quencher, and a methods for nucleic acid amplification and measurement using the same" was invented by Yoo Deok Won (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hae Joon Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyo Jin Seong (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Sun Young Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a complementary double-stranded oligo, in which, for the amplification of a particular gene sequence, ...