US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 16 for "Methods and devices for integrating analyte extraction, concentration and detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,630, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for integrating analyte extraction, concentration and detection" was invented by Daniel Takashi Kamei (Monterey Park, Calif.), Yin To Chiu (Irvine, Calif.), Benjamin Ming Wu (San Marino, Calif.) and Garrett L. Mosley (Newport Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are devices and methods that use aqueous two phase systems and lateral flow assays to detect target analytes in a sample. These devices and methods may be used to diagnose a disease or condition in a biological sample, such as ...