ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,491, issued on June 24, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).
"Methods to detect rhinovirus 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 disclosed disclosure is related to methods, compositions, and kits for targeting Rhinovirus nucleic acid. Compositions include amplification oligomers and/or detection probe oligomers. Kits and methods comprise at least one of these oligomers. Methods include uniplex and multiplex amplification and detection reaction...