US Patent Issued to ARUP Laboratories on Jan. 20 for "Separating and quantifying unbound target analytes from biological samples" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,029, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ARUP Laboratories Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Separating and quantifying unbound target analytes from biological samples" was invented by Mark M. Kushnir (Salt Lake City) and Alan L. Rockwood (Riverton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of separating free target analyte from protein-bound target analyte is described. Such can include obtaining an aqueous sample containing a target analyte in a free form (free target analyte) and the target analyte in a protein-bound form (protein-bound target analyte), passing the aqueous sample through a size exclusion chromatography matrix with a molec...