ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,348, issued on June 17, was assigned to QIAGEN GmbH (Hilden, Germany).

"Detection probe for internal amplification control and kit including same" was invented by Miroslav Vranes (Hilden, Germany), Ralf Peist (Hilden, Germany), Mario Scherer (Hilden, Germany) and Stefan Otto Cornelius (Hilden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oligonucleotide suitable for use as a detection probe in a method for evaluating the amplification efficiency, the presence of inhibitors, degradation and/or for performing a quantification analysis of a target nucleic acid in a real-time amplification reaction. The oligonucleotide probe is preferably S...