ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,744, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ultivue Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Methods and compositions for sequentially detecting targets" was invented by Abdul Majeed Mohammed (Cambridge, Mass.), Mael Manesse (Medford, Mass.), Mack J. Schermer (Arlington, Mass.), Mark N. Bobrow (Lexington, Mass.) and Michael Jules Natan (Weston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions, kits and methods for detecting a plurality of targets are provided herein. A probe-set composition is provided, including one or more first probes and one or more second probes. Each of the first probe includes a nucleic acid sequence complementary to a nuclei...