US Patent Issued to Korea Institute of Science and Technology on March 25 for "Porous particle composite for PCR with heat dissipation function" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,586, issued on March 25, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea).

"Porous particle composite for PCR with heat dissipation function" was invented by Sang Kyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Bong Kyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jung Min Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungwon Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a porous particle composite for PCR, wherein the porous particle composite distributes photothermal nano-elements that generate heat by absorbing light in porous particles in which nucleic acid amplification occurs through temperature control ...