ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,165, issued on May 20, was assigned to HP Health Solutions Germany GmbH (Grafelfing, Germany).

"Device for extracting a nucleic acid from a sample liquid" was invented by Joachim Stehr (Martinsried, Germany), Lars Ullerich (Martinsried, Germany), Federico Bursgens (Martinsried, Germany), Domenik Zistl (Martinsried, Germany), Simon Schmidbauer (Martinsried, Germany), Daniel Grodd (Martinsried, Germany), Cecilia Rebuffo-Scheer (Martinsried, Germany) and Lidiya Osinkina (Martinsried, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for extracting a nucleic acid from a sample liquid includes a heating element configured to be connected to...