US Patent Issued to Transformative Biotech, The Regents of the University of Colorado on July 1 for "Extraction-free pathogen testing methods" (Colorado, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,889, issued on July 1, was assigned to Transformative Biotech LLC (Boulder, Colo.) and The Regents of the University of Colorado (Aurora, Colo.).

"Extraction-free pathogen testing methods" was invented by Robert E. Blomquist (Boulder, Colo.), Shi-Long Lu (Englewood, Colo.), Brian L. Harry (Denver), Jose P. Zevallos (St. Louis) and Xin Yao (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides compositions and methods allowing for rapid, accurate, robust, and low-cost diagnosis of infectious diseases via extraction-free, direct PCR techniques."

The patent was filed on March 9, 2022, under Application No. 17/690,951.

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