ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,042, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to ReCode Therapeutics Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Method for quantifying an amount of capped messenger RNA" was invented by Mirko Hennig (Mountain View, Calif.), Sakya Sing Mohapatra (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniella Ishimaru (Mountain View, Calif.), Joseph S. Cefalu (Menlo Park, Calif.), Ali Ahmed Alfaifi (Redwood City, Calif.), Julia Jung-un Baek (San Jose, Calif.), Hu Meng (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Jeremy Monroe (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method for quantifying an amount of capped messenger RNA (mRNA) in an mRNA sample comprising contacting the mRNA with two o...