US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on July 15 for "Polyanionic acids to improve recovery and minimize system loss" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,191, issued on July 15, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Polyanionic acids to improve recovery and minimize system loss" was invented by Michael Donegan (Charlton, Mass.), Martin Gilar (Franklin, Mass.), Matthew Lauber (North Smithfield, R.I.), Scott Mccall (Smithfield, R.I.), Pamela Iraneta (Brighton, Mass.) and Kerri Smith (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a method of separating a sample comprising oligonucleotides. The method includes injecting a polyphosphonic acid at a concentration of between about 0.01 M to about 1 M into the sample comprising oligo...