US Patent Issued to GEN-PROBE on Nov. 4 for "Compositions and methods for amplifying or detecting varicella-zoster virus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,272, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions and methods for amplifying or detecting varicella-zoster virus" was invented by Marcela Alejandra Carvallo Pinto (San Diego), Amber Jean Hillius (San Diego) and Ankur Shah (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are oligonucleotides, oligonucleotide compositions, kits, methods, formulations, and reaction mixtures that provide for sensitive and specific detection of a target nucleic acid sequence, or amplicon generated from a target nucleic acid sequence, of Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV1 (if present) in a sample. The oligonucleotides, compositio...