ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,420, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions to detect adenovirus nucleic acids" was invented by Mehrdad R. Majlessi (Escondido, Calif.), Ankur Shah (San Diego), Amber Hillius (San Diego), Pamela Douglass (Kansas City, Mo.) and Daniel Kolk (Ramona, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is related to compositions, for targeting Adenovirus nucleic acid. Compositions include amplification oligomers and/or detection probe oligomers."

The patent was filed on Dec. 27, 2022, under Application No. 18/146,589.

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