ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,183, issued on May 20, was assigned to SEBIA (Lisses, France).
"Immunofixation electrophoresis method with target component on-gel immunodisplacement" was invented by Georges Nouadje (Bondoufle, France) and Thierry Ligneel (Bouray sur Juine, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for analyzing biological samples by immunofixation electrophoresis which involves immunodisplacement of target component(s) that may be present in the assayed biological sample, the target component(s) amounting to interfering component(s) when interpretation of the immunofixation results is considered. The immunodisplacement is carried ...