US Patent Issued to Iowa State University Research Foundation on Sept. 16 for "Capturing, concentrating, and detecting microbes in a sample using magnetic ionic liquids and recombinase polymerase amplification" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,052, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Capturing, concentrating, and detecting microbes in a sample using magnetic ionic liquids and recombinase polymerase amplification" was invented by Jared L. Anderson (Ames, Iowa), Byron F. Brehm-Stecher (Ames, Iowa), Kevin D. Clark (Ames, Iowa) and Stephanie A Hice (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this disclosure, a method or kit for using the method of extracting, concentrating, and detecting microbes from a sample is disclosed. The method disclosed herein use transition or rare earth metal-based magnetic ionic liquid...