US Patent Issued to Roche Molecular Systems on July 1 for "Compositions and methods for detection of Candida auris" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,905, issued on July 1, was assigned to Roche Molecular Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for detection of Candida auris" was invented by Ellen H. Fiss Hobart (Albany, Calif.), Jody Harris (Lafayette, Calif.), Andrew T. Hill (Livermore, Calif.) and Jingtao Sun (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for the rapid detection of the presence or absence of Candida auris (CA) in a biological or non-biological sample are described. The methods can include performing an amplifying step, a hybridizing step, and a detecting step. Furthermore, primers, probes targeting the CA 5.8s/ITS2 rRNA gene, alon...