ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,029, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Exosome Diagnostics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Compositions, methods, and kits for the isolation of extracellular vesicles" was invented by Johan Karl Olov Skog (Lincoln, Mass.), Olubode A. Ogunlusi (Framingham, Mass.), Robert Raymond Kitchen (Somerville, Mass.), Douglas Roberts (Waltham, Mass.) and Wei Yu (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compositions, methods and kits for the isolation of extracellular vesicles. The compositions, methods and kits can comprise a high-density liquid reagent that facilitates the sequestration of extracellular vesicles bo...