ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,370, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Lua Optomekatronik ARGE A.S. (Istanbul).

"Device and method for comprehensive characterization, analysis, hetero-genity and purity quantification of extracellular vesicles" was invented by Tayfun Tatar (Istanbul) and Onur Samet Yildirim (Istanbul).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracellular vesicle characterization and analysis device in terms of their size, phenotype, and cargo content is provided. A method performed with the device to quantify the heterogeneity of extracellular vesicle samples both in terms of size and cargo content and further quantify the purity of extracellular vesicles...