US Patent Issued to Promega on March 17 for "ATP detection" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,336, issued on March 17, was assigned to Promega Corp. (Madison, Wis.).

"ATP detection" was invented by Subhanjan Mondal (Madison, Wis.), Dongping Ma (Madison, Wis.), Kevin Hsiao (Madison, Wis.), Said Goueli (Madison, Wis.) and James J. Cali (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to devices, methods, and systems or kits for detecting ATP in a sample. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to methods for removing ATP contamination from a sample and detecting intracellular ATP in the sample (e.g., as a proxy for detecting live cells in the sample)."

The patent was filed on April 6, 2023, un...