US Patent Issued to DAAN GENE on Jan. 13 for "RT-PCR detection method and kit for novel coronavirus" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,880, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DAAN GENE Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"RT-PCR detection method and kit for novel coronavirus" was invented by Xiwen Jiang (Guangdong, China), Zhihui Liao (Guangdong, China) and Jian Fan (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A real-time fluorescence RT-PCR detection method and a kit for a novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV. Specifically, the present invention relates to a kit and a method for detecting the nucleic acid of an E gene of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV. The kit and the method have extremely high sensitivity and specificity, and can significantly improve the accuracy of virus i...