ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,710, issued on June 23, was assigned to EIKEN KAGAKU K.K. (Tokyo).
"Method for detecting single-stranded RNA virus" was invented by Machiko Yamamoto (Shimotsuga-gun, Japan), Kota Yokono (Shimotsuga-gun, Japan), Syouhei Semba (Shimotsuga-gun, Japan) and Satoru Michiyuki (Otawara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a single-stranded RNA virus in a sample includes: bringing a primer set into contact with a sample to perform a RT-LAMP reaction, wherein the primer set is designed based on a nucleotide sequence of a target RNA and a nucleotide sequence of a nucleic acid complementary to the target RNA, and includes...