US Patent Issued to Lamprogen on Jan. 13 for "Digital amplification for protein detection" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,651, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Lamprogen Inc. (Seattle).

"Digital amplification for protein detection" was invented by Daniel T. Chiu (Seattle) and Peter Allen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of measuring the quantity of analyte molecules. In some aspects, the method comprises compartmentalizing a sample with binding molecules conjugated to synthetic nucleic acid molecules such that the interaction of the binding molecules with the analyte molecules brings the nucleic acid molecules into proximity. Proximity triggers reactions that result in an optical signal, such as fluoresc...