ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,034, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY.
"Reagent buffer" was invented by Lance A. Liotta (Manassas, Va.), Alessandra Luchini Kunkel (Manassas, Va.), Marissa Ashton Howard (Manassas, Va.), Amanda Haymond Still (Manassas, Va.), Ghaliah Abdraboh M. Alluhaibi (Manassas, Va.) and Hannah Elizabeth Steinberg (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment relates to a reagent buffer comprising a zwitterionic sulfonic solution, a non-ionic surfactant solution, and a buffer solution, wherein the reagent buffer has a pH range of about 7.0 to about 8.0 and a circular dichroism with an absorbance peak more than 0 at ...