US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 15 for "Rapid extraction of nucleic acids from clinical samples for downstream applications" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,244, issued on July 15, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Rapid extraction of nucleic acids from clinical samples for downstream applications" was invented by Deborah Anne Dean (San Anselmo, Calif.) and Noor Alnabelseya (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are novel methods and compositions for rapidly extracting and amplifying nucleic acids from a sample where the sample is combined with an extraction reagent comprising a reducing agent to form a mixture and incubating said mixture at ambient temperature for a period of time not exceeding 30 minutes to generat...