US Patent Issued to ProteinSimple on June 10 for "Reusable cartridge for capillary electrophoresis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,417, issued on June 10, was assigned to ProteinSimple (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reusable cartridge for capillary electrophoresis" was invented by Hui Xu (Dublin, Calif.) and Uyen Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein generally relate to cartridges suitable for performing electrophoretic separation of analytes. Cartridges described herein are particularly well suited for reuse. Cartridges described herein can include a reservoir disposed between a capillary and a container containing a run buffer. The reservoir can inhibit run buffer from intruding into the capillary, thereby allowing repeated...