ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,489, issued on May 13, was assigned to CureVac Manufacturing GmbH (Tubingen, Germany).
"Method for determining at least one quality parameter of an RNA sample" was invented by Stefan Heinz (Heidelberg, Germany) and Tilmann Roos (Kusterdingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for quality control analysis of an RNA sample comprising n different RNA molecule species using reverse transcription and a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based assay, dPCR, preferably ddPCR, thereby determining at least one quality parameter. Moreover, the RNA molecules in the RNA sample may be in complexed form. ...