US Patent Issued to CO-DIAGNOSTICS on March 25 for "Allele-specific design of cooperative primers for improved nucleic acid variant genotyping" (Utah, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,620, issued on March 25, was assigned to CO-DIAGNOSTICS INC. (Salt Lake City).

"Allele-specific design of cooperative primers for improved nucleic acid variant genotyping" was invented by Jana Kent (Salt Lake City), Masen Chad Christensen (Salt Lake City) and Brent Coleman Satterfield (Wichita Falls, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of synthesizing a target nucleic acid preferentially relative to a nucleic acid with one or more nucleotides that differ from the target nucleic acid. Also disclosed are systems and kits for the same."

The patent was filed on Sept. 25, 2019, under Application No. 17/279,...