ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,001, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Envirologix Inc. (Portland, Maine).
"Compositions and methods for detecting an RNA virus" was invented by Lars Peters (Portland, Maine), Stephen A. Judice (Portland, Maine), Daniel Shaffer (Portland, Maine) and Breck Parker (Portland, Maine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods for rapidly identifying an RNA viral infection using an isothermal nucleic acid amplification reaction that can be carried out extracted RNA in the context of a crude biological sample."
The patent was filed on Aug. 12, 2020, under Application No. 16/991,216.
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