US Patent Issued to GEN-PROBE on April 29 for "Apparatus for applying thermal energy to a receptacle and detecting an emission signal from the receptacle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,669, issued on April 29, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).

"Apparatus for applying thermal energy to a receptacle and detecting an emission signal from the receptacle" was invented by David Buse (San Diego), David Howard Combs (San Diego), Norbert D. Hagen (Carlsbad, Calif.), David Opalsky (San Diego), Bruce Richardson (Los Gatos, Calif.), Anita Prasad (Los Gatos, Calif.), Keith Moravick (Los Gatos, Calif.), Tyler Moore (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Byron J. Knight (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for performing nucleic acid amplification reactions includes a thermally-conductive receptacle holder that includ...