US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI FOCUSGEN BIOTECH on June 23 for "RT-PCR detection reagent for detecting novel coronavirus, kit and detection method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,709, issued on June 23, was assigned to SHANGHAI FOCUSGEN BIOTECH LTD (Shanghai).

"RT-PCR detection reagent for detecting novel coronavirus, kit and detection method thereof" was invented by Lifeng Qi (Shanghai) and Yong Yan (Jiaxing City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to the molecular biological detection technical field, specifically is a RT-PCR detection reagent for detecting coronavirus virus directly without need of RNA extraction, a kit and a detection method thereof. The RT-PCR detection reagent for detecting coronavirus virus comprises primers having nucleotide sequences as set forth in ...