US Patent Issued to Covaris on Nov. 3 for "Protein and metabolite enrichment using focused acoustic energy" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,336, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Covaris LLC (Woburn, Mass.).

"Protein and metabolite enrichment using focused acoustic energy" was invented by James A. Laugharn Jr. (Boston), Ulrich Thomann (Stow, Mass.), Nicolas Alexandre Julien Autret (Torcy, France), Eugenio Daviso (Pelham, N.H.) and Hamiduddin Khoja (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for disassociating protein complexes, e.g., to allow recovery and/or analysis of at least one of the proteins or metabolites released from a complex. Disassociation is done using focused acoustic energy and without solvents, excessive heat or oth...