US Patent Issued to GenePath Diagnostics on May 26 for "Composition and method for improving detection of biomolecules in biofluid samples" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,704, issued on May 26, was assigned to GenePath Diagnostics Inc. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Composition and method for improving detection of biomolecules in biofluid samples" was invented by Nikhil Phadke (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Siddharth Anand (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of detecting one or more nucleic acids in a biofluid sample. The methods include adding to the biofluid sample a composition comprising a sufficient amount of dextran sulphate to provide between 50 nM and 5 MuM dextran sulphate when the composition is added to the biofluid sample."

The patent was filed on Sept. 23, 2020, un...