US Patent Issued to Gen-Probe on Oct. 28 for "Compositions and methods for amplifying, detecting or quantifying human cytomegalovirus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,728, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Gen-Probe Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions and methods for amplifying, detecting or quantifying human cytomegalovirus" was invented by Paul Darby (San Diego), Siobhan Miick (San Diego), Jo Ann Jackson (Lakeside, Calif.), Hee Cheol Kim (San Diego), Amber Hillius (San Diego) and Ankur Shah (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Oligomer nucleotides, compositions, methods, kits, and uses are provided for detecting or quantifying a Human Cytomegalovirus virus 1 (CMV (human herpesvirus 5, HHV5) nucleic acid, e.g., using nucleic acid amplification and hybridization assays. Multiphase amplification ...