Non-competitive co-amplification methods

US6461817B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• The Public Health Research Institute Of the City of New York, Inc. · US

Inventors

• David Alland · Dobbs Ferry, US
• Fred R. Kramer · Yonkers, US
• Amy Piatek · Brookline, US
• Sanjay Tyagi · New York, US
• Jacqueline Vet · Malden, NL

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 20, 2000
• Grant date: Oct 8, 2002
• Expiry date: Oct 20, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12Q1/6851
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Non-competitive, quantitative amplification assay methods, including assays employing amplification by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) process, for accurately measuring levels of target nucleic acid and sequences in samples and for ascertaining the relative amounts of cross-hybridizing alleles and mutants.