US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas on Aug. 11 for "Methods and compositions for rapid direct detection and differentiation of infectious from noninfectious virus" (Argentinean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,516, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.), Universidad Nacional de La Plata (La Plata, Argentina) and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (Caba, Argentina).

"Methods and compositions for rapid direct detection and differentiation of infectious from noninfectious virus" was invented by Yi Lu (Champaign, Ill.), Ana Sol Peinetti (Urbana, Ill.) and Omar Azzaroni (La Plata, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of detecting presence of a virus in a sample are provided, the method including contacting the sample with a solid state nanopore co...