ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,896, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ProteinSimple (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for fractionation and collection of analytes in a sample" was invented by Cheng Zhou (Irvine, Calif.), Hui Xu (Dublin, Calif.), Roland Y. Wang (Dublin, Calif.), David J. Roach (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jessica Dermody (San Jose, Calif.), Tom Weisan Yang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Jiaqi Wu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include systems, apparatuses, and methods to efficiently separate analytes in a sample and elute fractions of the separated analytes. In some embodiments, a method includes introducing a sample in a capi...