ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,498, issued on April 21, was assigned to Hanuman Pelican Inc. (New Orleans).
"Apparatus and methods for extracellular vesicle enrichment" was invented by Randy Dorian (San Diego), Michael D. Leach (Warsaw, Ind.), Richard W. Storrs (Berkeley, Calif.) and Scott R. King (New Orleans).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for extracellular vesicle enrichment are described in which apparatus may be used to create plasma preparations that are enriched in EV-containing fluid sample. Generally, one variation of a method may generally comprise contacting the fluid sample with a plurality of absorbent chromatographic beads to co...