US Patent Issued to GEN-PROBE on Sept. 30 for "Compositions and methods for detecting or quantifying Human Parainfluenza Virus 4" (California, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,672, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions and methods for detecting or quantifying Human Parainfluenza Virus 4" was invented by Mehrdad Majlessi (Escondido, Calif.), Pamela Douglass (Kansas City, Mo.) and Daniel Kolk (Ramona, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions, methods, kits, and uses are provided for detecting or quantifying an Human Parainfluenza virus 1 (HPIV-1), HPIV-2, HPIV-3, and/or HPIV-4 nucleic acid, e.g., using nucleic acid amplification and hybridization assays. In some embodiments, the compositions, methods, kits, and uses target the HN gene of HPIV-1, HPIV-2, and/...