US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU, JAPAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SECURITY on Aug. 4 for "Rotavirus genotype detection method and gene amplification primer set used in same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,536, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and JAPAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SECURITY (Tokyo).

"Rotavirus genotype detection method and gene amplification primer set used in same" was invented by Yoshiki Fujii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention addresses the problem of finding a new gene detection primer capable of more accurately detecting genotypes of rotavirus A and a detection means using the gene detection primer, and provides a rotavirus genotype detection method, a gene amplification primer set used in this method, and a genotype detection kit. In the rotavirus genotype detection ...