US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Aug. 12 for "Size-based particle separation and concentration using particle size amplification" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,908, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Size-based particle separation and concentration using particle size amplification" was invented by Jon F. Edd (Wakefield, Mass.), Kaja Kaastrup (Charlestown, Mass.), Ravi Kapur (Sharon, Mass.) and Mehmet Toner (Charlestown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of using particle size amplification to facilitate size-based particle separation and concentration. At least one of the methods includes introducing a plurality of binding moieties into a fluid sample; allowing at least one of the binding moieties to bind two or more biological particles to ...