US Patent Issued to GODX, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES on March 11 for "Point of need testing device and methods of use thereof" (Wisconsin, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,250, issued on March 11, was assigned to GODX INC (Madison, Wis.) and THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES (Bethesda, Md.).

"Point of need testing device and methods of use thereof" was invented by Chang Hee Kim (Waunakee, Wis.), Wendy A. Henderson (Bethesda, Md.), Sarah K. Abey (Bethesda, Md.), Nicolaas H. Fourie (Bethesda, Md.) and Eric G. Ferguson (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the rapid and electricity-free, point-of-care, multiplexed detection and quantification of at least one or more nucleic acid sequences from nuclei...