ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,542, issued on April 14, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) and Nuclein LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Lyophilized reagents" was invented by Matthew A. Butzler (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Jennifer L. Reed (Chicago), Sally McFall (Evanston, Ill.), Abhishek K. Agarwal (Evanston, Ill.), David M. Kelso (Wilmette, Ill.) and Tom Westberg (Lake Forest, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of producing lyophilized reagents with desired physical characteristics, and the lyophilized reagents produced thereby. In particular, lyophilized combinations of reagents are provided with specific physical geometri...