US Patent Issued to Binx Health on April 15 for "Modified primers for nucleic acid amplification and detection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,990, issued on April 15, was assigned to Binx Health Ltd. (Trowbridge, Great Britain).

"Modified primers for nucleic acid amplification and detection" was invented by Daniel Adlerstein (Trowbridge, Great Britain), David Pearce (Trowbridge, Great Britain), Anna Dixon (Keynsham, Great Britain) and Wellington Fakanya (Trowbridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of nucleic acid amplification involving using a first modified primer which provides protection to the amplification product from exonuclease degradation and a second primer. The method provides a double stranded nucleic acid, one strand of which is degraded ...