US Patent Issued to HELIXBIND on June 2 for "Methods and devices for detecting and identifying microorganisms" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,158, issued on June 2, was assigned to HELIXBIND INC. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Methods and devices for detecting and identifying microorganisms" was invented by Alon Singer (Waltham, Mass.), Ranjit Prakash (Northborough, Mass.), Srinivas Rapireddy (Westborough, Mass.) and Jork Nolling (Hopedale, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for isolating microbial cells from a sample, extracting eukaryotic DNA from a sample, and identifying the microbial species in the sample are disclosed herein."

The patent was filed on July 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/870,506.

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