US Patent Issued to Exosome Diagnostics on May 27 for "Method for isolation of nucleic acid containing particles and extraction of nucleic acids therefrom" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,582, issued on May 27, was assigned to Exosome Diagnostics Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Method for isolation of nucleic acid containing particles and extraction of nucleic acids therefrom" was invented by Johan Karl Olov Skog (Lincoln, Mass.) and Leileata M. Russo (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for extracting nucleic acids from a biological sample by isolating nucleic acid-containing particles from the biological sample by one or more centrifugation procedures, performing one or more steps to mitigate adverse factors that prevent or might prevent high quality nucleic acid extraction, and extracting nucleic acids from th...