US Patent Issued to GEN-PROBE on Nov. 4 for "Compositions and methods to detect adenovirus nucleic acids and metapneumovirus and/or rhinovirus nucleic acids" (California, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,255, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions and methods to detect adenovirus nucleic acids and metapneumovirus and/or 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 Adenovirus, Metapneumovirus, and/or Rhinovirus nucleic acid. Compositions include amplification oligomers and/or detection probe oligomers. Kits and methods comprise at l...