US Patent Issued to Korea University Research and Business Foundation on Feb. 17 for "Method for extracting microvesicles from biological sample" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,828, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for extracting microvesicles from biological sample" was invented by Se-Hyun Shin (Seoul, South Korea), Ho-Yoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Won-Hwi Na (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin-Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for extracting microvesicles from a biological sample, the method comprising the steps of: adding a polyvalent cationic material to the biological sample to form an aggregate in which the microvesicles and the polyvalent cationic material ar...