ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,488, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to EIKEN KAGAKU K.K. (Tokyo).
"Method for detecting coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)" was invented by Kota Yokono (Tochigi, Japan), Machiko Yamamoto (Tochigi, Japan), Syota Yuki (Tochigi, Japan), Ai Fukaya (Tochigi, Japan) and Yutaka Kubota (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are oligonucleotide primers that hybridize specifically with any base sequence designed from the base sequences of the N gene, RNA-dependent RNA polymerase gene, M gene, and S gene of SARS-CoV-2, a nucleic acid amplification method using said primers, a test method for SARS-CoV-2 infection by detection of nuclei...