US Patent Issued to CAPITALBIO, TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY on Feb. 18 for "Solid phase extraction material and its use for nucleic acid enrichment and detection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,790, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to CAPITALBIO Corp. (Beijing) and TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Solid phase extraction material and its use for nucleic acid enrichment and detection" was invented by He Yan (Beijing), Wanli Xing (Beijing) and Ying Lu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of enriching nucleic acid, including mixing a sample with a solid phase extraction material; and separating the solid phase extraction material; wherein the solid phase extraction material is glass beads or magnetic beads modified with reduced graphene oxide. Also disclosed is a method of detecting nucleic acid, including mixing a nu...