US Patent Issued to LAB-ON-A-BEAD on July 14 for "Purification process based on magnetic beads" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,864, issued on July 14, was assigned to LAB-ON-A-BEAD AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Purification process based on magnetic beads" was invented by Veronique Chotteau (Nacka, Sweden), Kristofer Eriksson (Strangnas, Sweden), Sven Oscarsson (Stockholm), Nils Arnold Brechmann (Stockholm) and Per-Olov Eriksson (Strangnas, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a process for the separation of molecules from a suspension comprising cells at a concentration of at least 56x106 cells/ml, comprising the steps of: a) providing magnetic particles having a specific interaction with said molecules to be separated, b) mixing the magnetic pa...