US Patent Issued to Roche Diagnostics Operations on Oct. 28 for "Stabilization of whole blood at room temperature" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,346, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Stabilization of whole blood at room temperature" was invented by Waltraud Ankenbauer (Mannheim, Germany), Ulrike Dietrich-Veenstra (Iffeldorf, Germany), Renate Kolb (Iffeldorf, Germany), Yvonne Maerz (Murnau, Germany) and Stephanie Wessner (Farchant, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to the stabilization of nucleated cells in a whole blood sample ex-vivo, effected by an additive being a liquid composition for stabilizing an analyte in intact nucleated cells of a whole-blood sample ex-vivo, the compositio...