US Patent Issued to Japan Science and Technology Agency on July 29 for "Method and kit for detecting influenza virus, and method for diagnosing influenza virus infection" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,752, issued on July 29, was assigned to Japan Science and Technology Agency (Saitama, Japan).

"Method and kit for detecting influenza virus, and method for diagnosing influenza virus infection" was invented by Kazuhito Tabata (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Noji (Tokyo), Yasuteru Urano (Tokyo) and Mako Kamiya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As a technique for detecting an influenza virus with an improved accuracy, there is provided a method for detecting an influenza virus in a biological sample by using a first probe, which is decomposed by an influenza virus-derived neuraminidase and a bacterium-derived neuraminidase to generate an optical...