ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,538, issued on July 28, was assigned to ULISSE BIOMED S.P.A. (Udine, Italy).

"Molecular fingerprinting methods to detect and genotype DNA targets through polymerase chain reaction" was invented by Rudy Ippodrino (Trieste, Italy), Bruna Marini (Trieste, Italy), Alice Avian (Trieste, Italy), Marco Mocenigo (Trieste, Italy), Nicola Foschi (Forli, Italy), Elisabetta Mauro (San Michele Al Tagliamento, Italy) and Michele Montrone (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A molecular fingerprinting method is disclosed to detect and genotype pathogen DNA targets in a sample through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and High Resolution Melti...