ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,165, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Bioecho Life Sciences GMBH (Cologne, Germany).

"Isolation of nucleic acids at elevated temperatures" was invented by Joerg Hucklenbroich (Wermelskirchen, Germany), Maximilian Weiter (Cologne, Germany), Markus Helmut Mueller (Dormagen, Germany), Nicole Seip (Kaarst, Germany) and Benedikt Buerfent (Bergheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and use for isolating nucleic acids from a sample using a solution comprising a reducing agent, preferably a reducing agent of formula (I), an anionic detergent and a buffering substance. The present invention ...