US Patent Issued to Wayne State University on July 15 for "Systems and methods for ultra-specific and ultra-sensitive nucleic acid detection" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,265, issued on July 15, was assigned to Wayne State University (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for ultra-specific and ultra-sensitive nucleic acid detection" was invented by Rodrigo Fernandez-Valdivia (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods according to aspects of the disclosure, compositions and kits therefore, include at least one, two, or three sets of amplification primers and hydrolysis probes with at least two separate corresponding readouts per set. According to aspects of the present disclosure, the at least two hydrolysis probes and associated pair of primers of each set are directed to opposite stran...