ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,607, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Recombinant viruses, insect cells and their uses in viral detection and vaccination" was invented by Yu-Chan Chao (Taipei, Taiwan), Sung-Chan Wei (New Taipei, Taiwan), Huei-Ru Lo (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Hsuan Tsai (Pingtung County, Taiwan), Yu-Wen Lo (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Wei-Ting Hsu (Miaoli County, Taiwan) and Chuan-Yu Liao (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are recombinant viruses and/or insect cells suitable for detecting the infection of a pathogen in a biological sample of a test subject. The information derived from the detec...