ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,351, issued on April 22, was assigned to KOREA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Substrate for nucleic acid amplification, and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Oh Seok Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea), Tai Hwan Ha (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyung Ho Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Yeong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Seon Joo Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seong Eun Seo (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a substrate for nucleic acid amplification, and a method for manufacturing same, the substrate for rapid and accurate PCR analysis compri...