ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,197, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GEN-PROBE Inc. (San Diego).
"Methods and compositions for isolating an analyte" was invented by Anne H. Niinivaara (Vantaa, Finland), Juha M. N. Saharinen (Espoo, Finland) and Katri M. Holappa (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for isolating an analyte from a sample. In some aspects, the methods are for selectively isolating a microbial cell analyte, such as a nucleic acid, from a sample containing or suspected of containing mammalian cells. The selective isolation method includes selective lysis of the mammalian cells and filtration of the resulting lysate throu...