US Patent Issued to Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on April 22 for "Methods for detecting antiviral-drug resistant virus" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,363, issued on April 22, was assigned to Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (London).

"Methods for detecting antiviral-drug resistant virus" was invented by Jean Lutamyo Mbisa (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to a method for detecting the presence or absence of an antiviral drug-resistant HSV, comprising: (a) identifying one or more HSV mutation selected from: (i) a thymidine kinase (TK) mutation selected from 250Gless thanA (HSV-2), 0Cless thanT (HSV-1), 268Cless thanT (HSV-2), 373Cless thanT (HSV-1), 146Tless thanG (HSV-1), 363Gless thanA (HSV-), 497Tless thanA (HSV-1), 558Gless tha...