US Patent Issued to University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization on Aug. 26 for "Compositions and method for multiplex biomarker profiling" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. RE50,555, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to University of Washington through its Center for Commercialization (Seattle).

"Compositions and method for multiplex biomarker profiling" was invented by Xiaohu Gao (Shoreline, Wash.) and Pavel Zrazhevskiy (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for identifying or quantitating one or more analytes in sample. The composition can comprise an affinity molecule reversibly conjugated to a label moiety via a double-stranded nucleic acid linker or via an adaptor molecule. The affinity molecule and the label moiety can be linked to different strands of t...