US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology, Molecular Instruments on April 22 for "Ultrasensitive molecular detection via hybridization chain reaction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,352, issued on April 22, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.) and Molecular Instruments Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Ultrasensitive molecular detection via hybridization chain reaction" was invented by Harry M T Choi (South Pasadena, Calif.), Chun Hao R. Chen (Los Angeles), Mike C. Liu (Los Angeles), Aneesh Acharya (Altadena, Calif.) and Niles A. Pierce (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to hybridization chain reaction (HCR). In particular, compositions and methods are presented for ultrasensitive molecular detection using HCR signal amplification. Some embodiments...