US Patent Issued to CHARLES R. DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE on Jan. 13 for "Disease diagnostic system and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,720, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CHARLES R. DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE (Los Angeles).

"Disease diagnostic system and method" was invented by Benjamin Liu (Los Angeles), Eva Mcghee (Los Angeles), Hui Liu (Los Angeles) and Miguel Nava (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Infectious diseases have been sources of large-scale epidemics and pandemics resulting in millions of casualties worldwide. Detection of these biological agents normally involves several lab processes including sample preparation, nucleic acid separation and amplification, and diagnostic analysis. These steps, either performed manually or aut...