US Patent Issued to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings on June 3 for "Biologic machines for the detection of biomolecules" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,953, issued on June 3, was assigned to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Burlington, N.C.).

"Biologic machines for the detection of biomolecules" was invented by Jeff Albrecht (Los Angeles) and Andrew J. Conrad (Malibu, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, devices and systems for the isolation and detection of biomolecules from a sample. The embodiments, detection of such biomolecules provides for detection of microorganisms. For example, disclosed are methods, devices and systems that use bacteriophage-based amplification of the signal in detection of bacteria and other microorganisms. The devices, s...