ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,174, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to OCTANE BIOTECH INC. (Kingston, Canada).
"Magnetic separation" was invented by Timothy Smith (Kingston, Canada), Nuala Trainor (Kingston, Canada), Kevin Middleton (Toronto) and Alexis Pietak (Kingston, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and methods for automatic magnetic separation of magnetized targets in a biological sample are herein disclosed, where they comprise a magnetic field shield/barrier controllably operable to control the magnetic field in terms of reaching and attracting the magnetized targets within the biological sample."
The patent was filed on Sept. 25, 2019,...