ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,268, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GenDx Biotech Co. Ltd (Suzhou, China).

"Room temperature nucleic acid amplification reaction" was invented by Jibin Yu (Suzhou, China), Jun Li (Suzhou, China), Chencui Ma (Suzhou, China) and Shanshan Gao (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an application of a cold-active bacteriophage protein in a room temperature nucleic acid amplification reaction; the cold-active bacteriophage is selected from vB_EcoM-VR5, vB_EcoM-VR7, and vB_EcoM-VR20,vB_EcoM-VR25, or vB_EcoM-VR26, and the cold-active bacteriophage protein is a uvsX protein, a uvsY protein and a gp32 p...