US Patent Issued to Ellie on Feb. 24 for "Sample clarification and reduction of background fluorescence for fluorescent detection of analytes" (American, Serbian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,599, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ellie LLC (Germantown, Wis.).

"Sample clarification and reduction of background fluorescence for fluorescent detection of analytes" was invented by Miladin Kostovic (Brookfield, Wis.) and Milovan Stojanovic (Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and reagents for processing samples for fluorescence analysis. Processing methods include treating samples containing riboflavin to reduce riboflavin-dependent autofluorescence by adding riboflavin binding protein to the sample, irradiating the sample, or a combination thereof. Processing methods also include clarifying samples b...