US Patent Issued to Testo bioAnalytics on Aug. 26 for "Oligonucleotide probe for the specific detection of microorganisms, corresponding method and use" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,431, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Testo bioAnalytics GmbH (Titisee-Neustadt, Germany).

"Oligonucleotide probe for the specific detection of microorganisms, corresponding method and use" was invented by Paul Quehl (Gottingen, Germany), Zinaida Vasileuskaya-Schulz (Freiburg, Germany) and Stefanie Boos (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oligonucleotide probe combination (1) for the specific detection of microorganisms having a primary probe (5) and a secondary probe (6), wherein the primary probe (5) has at least one functional section (2) and the secondary probe (6) at least one tag (3) generating ...