US Patent Issued to Triad National Security on Nov. 3 for "Compositions and methods for detecting coronavirus" (New Mexico, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,288, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Triad National Security LLC (Los Alamos, N.M.).

"Compositions and methods for detecting coronavirus" was invented by Jessica Zofie Kubicek-Sutherland (Los Alamos, N.M.), Karina Yusim (Santa Fe, N.M.), James Patrick Theiler (Los Alamos, N.M.), Brian Thomas Foley (Los Alamos, Calif.), Zachary Ray Stromberg (Los Alamos, N.M.) and Jason David Gans (Los Alamos, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Primers and probes for detection of coronavirus nucleic acids and methods of their use are provided. In some examples, the primers and probes can discriminate between variant coronavirus nucleic acids."

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