ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,891, issued on July 22, was assigned to CEPHEID (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Methods and compositions for nucleic acid isolation" was invented by Vera Baraznenok (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alex I. Kutyavin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Oliver Z. Nanassy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dmitri Sergueev (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Alexander A. Gall (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for isolation of nucleic acids from biological samples are provided."

The patent was filed on Aug. 16, 2019, under Application No. 17/269,182.

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