US Patent Issued to Jan Biotech on Jan. 13 for "Oligonucleotide-templated photoreduction fluorogenic probe pairs and their use in quantitative detection of target RNA sequences" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,870, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Jan Biotech Inc. (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Oligonucleotide-templated photoreduction fluorogenic probe pairs and their use in quantitative detection of target RNA sequences" was invented by Can Zhou (Ithaca, N.Y.), Janet Lockwood Huie (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Jennifer Anastasia Nichols (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes a fluorogenic nucleic acid kit or composition for quantitative detection of a target ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequence in a test sample comprising at least one pair of oligonucleotide probes comprising a photocatalyst probe and a profluorophore probe, wherein ...