US Patent Issued to Gen-Probe on Nov. 25 for "Single-point calibration of a nucleic acid analyzer" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,154, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Gen-Probe Inc. (San Diego).

"Single-point calibration of a nucleic acid analyzer" was invented by Michael J. Gilly (San Diego), Sangeetha Vijaysri Nair (San Diego), James M. Carrick (Lanhim, Md.), Xianqun Wang (San Marcos, Calif.) and Susan K. Yamagata (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for quantifying target nucleic acids using real-time amplification and internal calibration adjustment. The invention employs dual reference calibration curves for approximating a complete calibration curve from only a single adjustment calibrator amplified on the instrument that...