US Patent Issued to The Florida International University Board of Trustees on April 8 for "Absolute precipitation of exosomes (APEX) isolation" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,052, issued on April 8, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Absolute precipitation of exosomes (APEX) isolation" was invented by Andrea D. Raymond (Coconut Creek, Fla.), Madhavan P. Nair (Coral Gables, Fla.), Arti Vashist (Miami) and Mickensone Andre (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention provides compositions and methods for isolating exosomes from, for example, biological fluid samples, cell cultures and/or cultured medium. Provided are Absolute Precipitation of Exosomes (APEX) reagents and precipitation techniques to isolate exosomes from various EV subsets, cells, ...