US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Nov. 3 for "Nucleic acid sequence measurement method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,263, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Nucleic acid sequence measurement method" was invented by Takashi Tadenuma (Musashino, Japan), Yuki Miyauchi (Musashino, Japan) and Tomoyuki Taguchi (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nucleic acid sequence measurement method for measuring a target RNA having a specific nucleic acid sequence included in a cell suspension by hybridization, including a step of heating the cell suspension at 100deg C. to 200deg C. in a pressurized state to obtain an RNA extract, a step of adding a proteolytic enzyme to the RNA extract to cause the RNA extract to be re...