ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,095, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BioLegend Inc. (San Diego).
"Stable nanomagnetic particle dispersions" was invented by Dhanesh Gohel (San Diego), Hong Zhang (La Jolla, Calif.) and John Ransom (Encinitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes and compositions are described for preparing new, colloidally stable, coated nanomagnetic particles useful for both in-vitro and in-vivo biomedical applications, including cell targeting and capturing cells, microorganisms, and cellular organelles or entities such as exosomes. These nanomagnetic particles can also be used as imaging contrast agents due to their small size and high...