ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,274, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CENTRILLION TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS Corp. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Oligonucleotide probe array with electronic detection system" was invented by Wei Zhou (Saratoga, Calif.), Glenn McGall (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rui Mei (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Filip Crnogorac (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, device, and system for a hybridization assay to detect nucleic acid targets. The assay may use a probe array format with addressable microwells. Each microwell may retain a plurality of copies of one probe which may be complementary to a portion o...