US Patent Issued to EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika on Jan. 13 for "Method for the qualitative evaluation of real-time PCR data" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,322, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG (Luebeck, Germany).

"Method for the qualitative evaluation of real-time PCR data" was invented by Christodoulos Filippis (Kastorf, Germany), Ulf Steller (Buchholz, Germany) and Fiona Schilling (Luebeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is used for the qualitative evaluation of real-time PCR data, where a time/PCR amplification plot of an associated sample is classified as a negative plot or as a positive plot. The method involves providing a real-time PCR amplification plot to be classified, plotting at least 20 successive amplitude valu...