ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,906, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).
"Device and method for detection of pathogens" was invented by Paul Yager (Seattle), Steven Bennett (Seattle), Erin K. Heiniger (Seattle), Sujatha Kumar (Seattle) and Kamal Girish Shah (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluidic devices, systems, and methods for analyzing an analyte are described. In an embodiment, the fluidic devices include a housing defining a lysis chamber shaped to receive a biological sample; a lysis buffer storage chamber disposed within the housing and carrying a lysis buffer configured to lyse cells of the biological sample; a ca...