US Patent Issued to DUKE UNIVERSITY, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPT. OF VETERANS AFFAIRS on Nov. 3 for "Methods to detect and treat SARS-CoV-2 (COVID19) infection" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,286, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, N.C.) and THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPT. OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington).

"Methods to detect and treat SARS-CoV-2 (COVID19) infection" was invented by Micah Mcclain (Durham, N.C.), Chris Woods (Durham, N.C.), Geoffrey Ginsburg (Durham, N.C.), Ephraim Tsalik (Cary, N.C.), Ricardo Henao Giraldo (Durham, N.C.), Thomas Burke (Durham, N.C.), Florica Constantine (Albany, Calif.) and Elizabeth Petzold (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods of making a SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection classifier for a platform, and optionally a non-COVI...