ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,281, issued on May 13, was assigned to METABOLOMIC DIAGNOSTICS Ltd. (County Cork, Ireland).

"Method of processing a biological sample" was invented by Robin Tuytten (County Cork, Ireland), Leslie Brown (County Cork, Ireland) and Alison E. Bond (South Wales, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of processing of a biological sample containing multiple metabolites is described The method comprising the steps of pre-treating the biological sample with a metabolite extraction solvent to provide a pre-treated sample, separating a first aliquot of the pre-treated sample by reverse phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) to provi...