US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for specimen processing and storage" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,398, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for specimen processing and storage" was invented by Xing Xie (Atlanta) and Wensi Chen (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving a specimen comprising a carrier, a first target species, and a first component and storing at least a portion of the carrier and the first target species in a storage media by self-driven filtering of the specimen in the storage media, wherein the storage media comprises porous superabsorbent polymer (PSAP) beads. The PSAP beads provide for fast and self-driven microfiltration of biof...