ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,755, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SANSURE BIOTECH INC. (Changsha, China).

"Composition, kit, and method for detecting and typing coronaviruses" was invented by Lizhong Dai (Changsha, China), Deyong Tan (Changsha, China), Zhongping Deng (Changsha, China), Jia Liu (Changsha, China), Bozhi Ji (Changsha, China), Xing Cheng (Changsha, China), Qingzhi Sun (Changsha, China) and Jin Yan (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the present invention is a composition capable of detecting and typing novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV, coronavirus 229E, coronavirus NL63, coronavirus OC43, coronavirus HKU1, coronavirus MERSr-C...