US Patent Issued to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 13 for "Polymerase chain reaction apparatus and polymerase chain reaction method using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,723, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Polymerase chain reaction apparatus and polymerase chain reaction method using same" was invented by Ki-Hun Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea), Young Seop Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Byoung-Hoon Kang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polymerase chain reaction apparatus according to the present invention comprises: a transparent photothermal substrate including a transparent plate having an array of transparent nano-pillars arranged to be spaced apart from each other, and plasmonic metal nano-islands di...