ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,196, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QIAGEN GmbH (Hilden, Germany).
"Method for isolating nucleic acids from plant samples" was invented by Dominic O'Neil (Hilden, Germany) and Patrick Smith (Hilden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for isolating nucleic acids from a plant sample comprising (a) preparing a lysed sample wherein preparing comprises (i) lysing a plant sample by mechanically disrupting the plant sample in a lysis solution which comprises at least one chaotropic agent and one or more solid disrupting particles, and (ii) optionally clearing the lysate; (b) contacting the lysed sample with at lea...