US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Aug. 25 for "Methods of producing ribosomal ribonucleic acid complexes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,094, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods of producing ribosomal ribonucleic acid complexes" was invented by Andrew M. Smith (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Miten Jain (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods of producing a nucleic acid complex. In certain aspects, the methods include combining a sample including ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and a probe complement oligonucleotide with an oligonucleotide probe. The oligonucleotide probe includes a 3' region complementary to a 3' region of a rRNA, and a 5' region complementary to the probe complement ...