US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Magnetic nanoparticles for sample separation" (California, Delaware, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,385, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Magnetic nanoparticles for sample separation" was invented by Jeffrey Carl Braman (Carlsbad, Calif.), Natalia Novoradovskaya (San Diego), David Long (Glen Mills, Pa.), Bruce Richter (Wilmington, Del.) and Derick Lucas (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Silica-coated magnetic nanoparticles with greater ability to remain dispersed, and methods of making and using silica-coated magnetic nanoparticles. The magnetic nanoparticles comprise a core and a coating, where the core comprises Fe3O4 or other magnetic material and the coating has...