US Patent Issued to Exact Sciences on Sept. 15 for "Automated and manual methods for isolation of extracellular vesicles and co-isolation of cell-free DNA from biofluids" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,695, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Exact Sciences Corp. (Madison, Wis.).

"Automated and manual methods for isolation of extracellular vesicles and co-isolation of cell-free DNA from biofluids" was invented by Georg Stoll (Martinsried, Germany), Daniel Enderle (Martinsried, Germany), Mikkel Noerholm (Martinsried, Germany) and Johan Karl Olov Skog (Lincoln, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides novel methods and kits for fully automated high-throughput method for isolation of extracellular vesicles and co-isolation of cell-free DNA from biofluids, including cell-free DNA and/or cell-free DNA and nucleic aci...