US Patent Issued to GENOMTEC on Jan. 27 for "Primer sets for the detection of human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) and human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18), the method of detecting HPV16 and HPV18 infections, the use of a primer set for the detection of HPV16 and HPV18 infections" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,769, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GENOMTEC S.A. (Wroclaw, Poland).

"Primer sets for the detection of human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) and human papillomavirus type 18 (HPV18), the method of detecting HPV16 and HPV18 infections, the use of a primer set for the detection of HPV16 and HPV18 infections" was invented by Malgorzata Malodobra-Mazur (Wroclaw, Poland), Miron Tokarski (Brzeg, Poland) and Izabela Pielka (Konopiska, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The first object of the invention is primer sets for amplifying the nucleotide sequence of the L2 gene of human papillomavirus type 16 or L1 gene of human papillomaviru...