US Patent Issued to QVELLA on March 18 for "Methods and compositions for the selective lysis of blood cells and separation of microbial cells" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,513, issued on March 18, was assigned to QVELLA Corp. (Richmond Hill, Canada).

"Methods and compositions for the selective lysis of blood cells and separation of microbial cells" was invented by Samad Talebpour (Richmond Hill, Canada), Aye Aye Khine (Thornhill, Canada), Vilcy Parmar (North York, Canada), Sukhdev Manku (Toronto) and Alaleh Samiei (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions are provided for the selective lysis of eukaryotic cells and the separation of microbial cells. Blood cells and/or other eukaryotic cells in a sample, may be selectively lysed by adding, to the sample, a blood lys...