ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,550, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to INVENTEC APPLIANCES Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Separating apparatus of biosubstance and separating method of the same" was invented by Ling-Yan Bao (Shanghai) and Wei-Shan Hung (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A separating apparatus of biosubstance and a separating method of the same are provided. The separating method includes: providing a controller to select a positive separation process or a negative separation process to execute according to types of target biosubstances; providing a pipette pump to inject a first magnetic bead reagent or a second magnetic b...