US Patent Issued to COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH on July 7 for "Method and kit for detection of polynucleotide" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,198, issued on July 7, was assigned to COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH (New Delhi).

"Method and kit for detection of polynucleotide" was invented by Debojyoti Chakraborty (Delhi, India), Souvik Maiti (Delhi, India), Mohammad Azhar (Delhi, India), Rhythm Phutela (Delhi, India), Namrata Sharma (Delhi, India), Dipanjali Sinha (Delhi, India), Saumya Sharma (Delhi, India), Arpit Mishra (Delhi, India) and Asgar Hussain Ansari (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention describes a kit for detection of a target polynucleotide using a CRISPR effector system that comprises CAS9 from Francisella novicida, a synthetic ...