US Patent Issued to STAR ARRAY on June 3 for "Apparatus for polymerase chain reaction of nucleic acid" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,786, issued on June 3, was assigned to STAR ARRAY PTE LTD (Singapore).

"Apparatus for polymerase chain reaction of nucleic acid" was invented by Haiqing Gong (Singapore) and Xudong Zeng (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Thermal cycling apparatus for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of nucleic acid is provided. Bath media in a first bath and a second bath are maintainable at two different temperatures. A transfer means allows the reactor to be in the two baths in a plurality of thermal cycles to alternately attain a predetermined high target temperature THT and a predetermined low target temperature TLT. A florescent imaging mea...