The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has been awarded US Patent No. 8,623,603, "Full cold-PCR enrichment with reference blocking sequence."
Gerassimos Makrigiorgos is named as the inventor.
Roche Diagnostics has been awarded US Patent No. 8,623,602, "Lysis and reverse transcription for mRNA quantification."
Michael Kubista, Linda Stroembom, and Neven Zoric are named as inventors.
Canon has been awarded US Patent No. 8,623,637, "Nucleic acid amplification apparatus and thermal cycler."
Ikumasa Ikeda is named as the inventor.
Qiagen has been awarded US Patent No. 8,624,020, "Method for isolating and purifying nucleic acids."
Ralf Himmelreich and Sabine Werner are named as inventors.