US Patent Issued to Daan Gene on Nov. 25 for "Nucleic acid detection kit for novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,169, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Daan Gene Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China).

"Nucleic acid detection kit for novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV" was invented by Xiwen Jiang (Guangdong, China), Jian Fan (Guangdong, China) and Hailong Peng (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a nucleic acid detection kit for novel coronavirus 2019-nCOV, and in particular, provided are a kit and a method for multiple detection of the nucleic acid of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCOV. Three nucleic acid targets of the novel coronavirus 2019-nCOV can be detected at the same time. False positives can be prevented by means of mutual authent...