ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,738, issued on March 18, was assigned to PIXELGEN TECHNOLOGIES AB (Stockholm).

"Rolling circle amplification product having multiple free ends" was invented by Simon Fredriksson (Bromma, Sweden) and Filip Karlsson (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a complex comprising multiple nucleic acid molecules that are hybridized together, each comprising, from 5' to 3', a first complementary sequence, a spacer sequence and a second complementary sequence, and either/or a 5' end sequence that is 5' of the first complementary sequence and terminates in a 5' phosphate and a 3' end sequence that is 3' of the second...