US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on July 21 for "Silica-based chromatographic processes for isolating nucleic acid-protein complexes and detecting target nucleic acids" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,891, issued on July 21, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Silica-based chromatographic processes for isolating nucleic acid-protein complexes and detecting target nucleic acids" was invented by Karen Anderson (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Mark Knappenberger (Mesa, Ariz.) and Siril Arockiam (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods of detecting a target nucleic acid in a sample using a deactivated RNA-guided nuclease and guide RNA complex. Some methods relate to isolating protein-nucleic acid complexes using silica-based chromatography with ...