ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,832, issued on June 30, was assigned to simfliBIO Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for detecting polynucleotide using RISC" was invented by Sungchul Hohng (Seoul, South Korea) and Soochul Shin (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for detecting small RNAs and discriminating single nucleotide polymorphism at a single molecule level, and specifically to a method for detection of small RNAs, whereby the detection and quantitation of small RNAs and the identification of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) can be achieved."

The patent was filed on Aug. 1, 2019, under Application No. 17/421,8...