ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,124, issued on March 24, was assigned to Delta Electronics Int'l (Singapore) Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Magnetic bead based nucleic acid extraction system" was invented by Jia Hui Esther Boey (Singapore), Weishi Zhang (Singapore) and Casthri Krishnamurthy (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic bead based nucleic acid extraction system includes a plurality of magnetic beads and an alcohol-free buffer system. The alcohol-free buffer system includes a lysis binding buffer, a first wash buffer, a second wash buffer, and an elution buffer that are stable in storage at room temperature. The buffers include a special selection of ...