US Patent Issued to SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY on Aug. 11 for "Nucleic acid test kit, test method, and use" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,886, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY (Shanghai).

"Nucleic acid test kit, test method, and use" was invented by Peixiang Ma (Shanghai) and Xinjie Wang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a nucleic acid test kit, comprising a Cpf1 test system, said Cpf1 test system comprising: a guide RNA, a Cpf1 protein, a nucleic acid probe, and a manganese ion-containing solution. Also provided is a mutated Cpf1 protein and a nucleic acid test kit containing the mutated Cpf1 protein. Also provided is a crRNA for testing coronavirus nucleic acid, and a nucleic acid test kit containing said crRNA. Further p...