US Patent Issued to AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY on Oct. 21 for "Specific electroporation and lysis of eukaryotic cells" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,617, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Vienna).

"Specific electroporation and lysis of eukaryotic cells" was invented by Klemens Wassermann (Korneuburg, Austria), Terje Wimberger (Vienna) and Johannes Peham (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of targeted electroporation and/or lysis of eukaryotic cellular bodies in a biological sample with at least two subgroups of eukaryotic cellular bodies, wherein each subgroup has a different susceptibility to electroporation and/or lysis in electric fields, including the following steps: transferring the biological sample in a chamber, expo...