US Patent Issued to CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG on Sept. 22 for "Methods and kits for detecting virus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,215, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Methods and kits for detecting virus" was invented by Peng Shi (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Zixun Wang (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Xi Zhao (Kowloon, Hong Kong) and Xianglin Ji (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods of detecting viruses and methods of making a diagnosis of viral infection, by using RNA and DNA probes. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the method is useful in detecting and diagnosing SARS-CoV-2 infection. Accordingly, also disclosed herein are a kit for detecting SARS-CoV-2."...