US Patent Issued to LUMINEX on Nov. 18 for "Chimeric primers with hairpin conformations and methods of using same" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,586, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to LUMINEX Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"Chimeric primers with hairpin conformations and methods of using same" was invented by Douglas F. Whitman (Round Rock, Texas) and Hongwei Zhang (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for nucleic acid amplification, detection, and genotyping techniques are disclosed. In one embodiment, a nucleic acid molecule having a target-specific primer sequence; an anti-tag sequence 5' of the target-specific primer sequence; a tag sequence 5' of the anti-tag sequence; and a blocker between the anti-tag sequence and the tag sequence is disclosed. Comp...