US Patent Issued to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings on Jan. 20 for "Methods and systems for detection of pathogens" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,113, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Burlington, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for detection of pathogens" was invented by Brian Krueger (Burlington, N.C.), Ayla Burns (Burlington, N.C.) and Kimberly Wagner (Burlington, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, compositions and systems for detecting the presence or absence of a pathogen in a sample. The method may include the steps of obtaining a sample from the subject and treating the sample with heat to inactivate any pathogen present in the sample. The method may further include the step of treating the sample to conce...