US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION on Aug. 5 for "Oligonucleotide-based probes and methods for detection of microbes" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,612, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Iowa City, Iowa).

"Oligonucleotide-based probes and methods for detection of microbes" was invented by James O. McNamara (Iowa City, Iowa), Katie R. Flenker (Iowa City, Iowa), Hyeon Kim (Iowa City, Iowa), Alexander R. Horswill (Iowa City, Iowa), Frank J. Hernandez (Iowa City, Iowa), Mark Behlke (Coralville, Iowa), Lingyan Huang (Coralville, Iowa), Richard Owczarzy (Coralville, Iowa), Elliot Burghardt (Iowa City, Iowa) and Karen Clark (Iowa City, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a rapid detection of microbial-associated nu...