ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,603, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ovik Leonardovich Mkrtchyan (Tashkent, Uzbekistan).

"Method for evaluation of viability of viruses with lymphotropism properties" was invented by Nariman Gulyamov (Tashkent, Uzbekistan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and techniques to increase the reliability of detecting virus infections, particularly lymphotropism, to eliminate false negative reactions in testing blood for the presence of lymphotropic viruses during enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing, and to better detect viruses with lymphotropism in biological materials having a concentration of viru...