US Patent Issued to NUCLEIN on May 12 for "Apparatus and methods for molecular diagnostics" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,227, issued on May 12, was assigned to NUCLEIN LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Apparatus and methods for molecular diagnostics" was invented by Richard Crockett (Austin, Texas), Alan Blake (Austin, Texas), Michael Karberg (Austin, Texas), John Lupher (Austin, Texas), Chris Clever Nee (Austin, Texas) and Matthew Flint Kepler (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to apparatus and methods for molecular diagnostics. Certain embodiments include a piston cycled from a first position proximal to a first end of a housing, to a second position proximal to a second end of the housing, and back to the first position proxima...