US Patent Issued to HITACHI on Aug. 5 for "Probe, probe set, and method for identifying desired DNA sequence in solution" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,597, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Probe, probe set, and method for identifying desired DNA sequence in solution" was invented by Itaru Yanagi (Tokyo) and Takahide Yokoi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure proposes a probe including a sequence recognition portion that is capable of specifically binding to a desired DNA sequence, and a first probe portion that includes a plurality of 3-dimensional structures arranged downstream from an end of the sequence recognition portion, in which the plurality of 3-dimensional structures are arranged in an order so that the order corresponds one-...