ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,859, issued on July 8, was assigned to 1ROA Technologies LLC (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
"IROA metabolomics workflow for improved accuracy, identification and quantitation" was invented by Christopher Beecher (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Richard A. Yost (Gainesville, Fla.) and Robin Hendrikus Johannes Kemperman (Gainesville, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IROA Matrix of metabolite compounds is disclosed. Each of whose compounds has a molecular weight of 2000 AMU or less, and is present as first and second isotopomers that are equally present at two predetermined isotopomeric balances, and contain 2 to 10% of a first isotope, and 90 to 98% of...