ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,460, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROLOGY, CHINA (Beijing).

"Method for preparing and certifying novel coronavirus nucleocapsid protein" was invented by Liqing Wu (Beijing), Xinhua Dai (Beijing), Wei Mi (Beijing), Yahui Liu (Beijing), Tao Peng (Beijing) and Jie Xie (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention is a method for preparing and certifying a novel coronavirus nucleocapsid protein (nCOV N protein) reference material, the method including: purification and dilution of a raw material of the nCOV N protein; preliminary uniformity test and packaging of solution of a c...