US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on July 14 for "Method for detection of specific nucleic acids" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,124, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Method for detection of specific nucleic acids" was invented by Yiwei Huang (Erlangen, Germany), Tivadar Mach (Nuremberg, Germany), Maximilian Wurstle (Baiersdorf, Germany) and Stefan Prause (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for detecting a target RNA polynucleotide by using a catcher polynucleotide which anneals to at least a portion of the target RNA polynucleotide, and a catalytically-inactive crRNA-guided (CRISPR RNA) RNA-binding protein which binds to the target RNA polynucleotide. Furth...