ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,425, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CureVac SE (Tubingen, Germany).

"Methods for RNA analysis" was invented by Alexander Schwenger (Tubingen, Germany), Stefan Heinz (Tubingen, Germany), Tilmann Roos (Tubingen, Germany), Benyamin Yazdan Panah (Tubingen, Germany) and Veronika Wagner (Tubingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is concerned with methods for analyzing RNA molecules. The provided methods involve conjugates for RNA cleavage comprising a chemical moiety with RNA cleaving activity and an oligonucleotide. The oligonucleotide is designed based on a target sequence present in an RNA molecule, and th...