US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on Aug. 25 for "Methods and systems for measuring multiplex RNA expression" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,095, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Methods and systems for measuring multiplex RNA expression" was invented by Zongli Zheng (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Chenyu Lu (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring RNA expression level of a target sequence in a sample is performed by simultaneously enriching the target sequence and corresponding RNA and calculating a RNA-to-DNA ratio of the same target sequence. A method of treating cancer includes the step of using the method of measuring RNA expression level of a target sequence. A kit includes components for...