US Patent Issued to ABELZETA on June 24 for "Reagent and method for fluorescence quantitative real-time PCR detection of RCL" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,494, issued on June 24, was assigned to ABELZETA INC. (Rockville, Md.).

"Reagent and method for fluorescence quantitative real-time PCR detection of RCL" was invented by Fang Liu (Shanghai), Liping Lan (Shanghai), Yutian Wei (Shanghai), Xun Ye (Shanghai), Li Zhang (Shanghai), Jiaqi Huang (Rockville, Md.) and Yihong Yao (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a reagent and method for detecting a replication-competent lentivirus (RCL) by fluorescence quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). In particular, the present invention provides a primer and probe combination for detecting RCL...