US Patent Issued to Beijing Forestry University on May 5 for "Specific primers for identifying Asian gypsy moth and method of detection thereby" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,116, issued on May 5, was assigned to Beijing Forestry University (Beijing).

"Specific primers for identifying Asian gypsy moth and method of detection thereby" was invented by Juan Shi (Beijing), Wenzhuai Ji (Beijing) and Shuyue Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a pair of specific primers for identifying Asian gypsy moth and a method of detection thereby. In the present disclosure, based on the SS-COI technology, primers for distinguishing other species of Lymantria are designed according to the specific region of the mitochondrial COI gene of Asian gypsy moth. The pair of primers has accurate identification eff...