US Patent Issued to Gen-Probe on Dec. 9 for "Compositions and methods for detecting or quantifying hepatitis C virus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,437, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Gen-Probe Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions and methods for detecting or quantifying hepatitis C virus" was invented by Siobhan Miick (San Diego), Paul M. Darby (San Diego), Jo Ann Jackson (Lakeside, Calif.) and Sheila M.J. Aubin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides oligomers, compositions, and kits for detecting and quantifying Hepatitis C virus (HCV), including different genotypes and variants thereof, and related methods and uses. In some embodiments, oligomers target the 5' untranslated region of HCV and are configured to provide substantially equivalent quantifica...