ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,637, issued on March 25, was assigned to ENVIROLOGIX INC. (Portland, Maine).

"Compositions and methods for enhancing and/or predicting DNA amplification" was invented by Lars Peters (Portland, Maine), Stephen A. Judice (Portland, Maine), Daniel Shaffer (Portland, Maine) and Breck Parker (Portland, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention features compositions and methods for amplifying a target oligonucleotide in a sample, including detection of the target oligonucleotide in real time."

The patent was filed on Oct. 6, 2022, under Application No. 17/938,585.

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