US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health Human Services on Aug. 12 for "Methods and compositions for detecting transfusion-transmitted pathogens" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,104, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Methods and compositions for detecting transfusion-transmitted pathogens" was invented by Valeria De Giorgi (Bethesda, Md.), Robert D. Allison (Bethesda, Md.) and Harvey J. Alter (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Probe sets capable of detecting pathogen nucleic acids in a sample are described. The probe set can be provided on a solid support, such as a microarray. Methods of detecting pathogen nucleic acids in a sample using the probe set are also provided. In some ex...