ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,627, issued on May 27, was assigned to ELEMENT BIOSCIENCES INC. (San Diego).

"Multivalent binding composition for nucleic acid analysis" was invented by Sinan Arslan (San Diego), Molly He (San Dieg, Calif.) and Michael Previte (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multivalent binding compositions including a particle-nucleotide conjugate having a plurality of copies of a nucleotide attached to the particle are described. The multivalent binding compositions allow one to localize detectable signals to active regions of biochemical interaction, e.g., sites of protein-protein interaction, protein-nucleic acid interaction, nucleic ac...