US Patent Issued to ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL on Feb. 24 for "Method for nucleic acid amplification" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,794, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Method for nucleic acid amplification" was invented by Charles Gawad (Germantown, Tenn.), John Easton (Memphis, Tenn.) and Veronica Gonzalez-Pena (Memphis, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for accurate and scalable Primary Template-Directed Amplification (PTA) nucleic acid amplification and sequencing methods, and their applications for research, diagnostics, and treatment."

The patent was filed on Sept. 11, 2024, under Application No. 18/882,493.

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