US Patent Issued to Ptomega on June 30 for "Compounds, compositions, and methods for isolation of nucleic acids" (California, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,577, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ptomega Corp. (Madison, Wis.).

"Compounds, compositions, and methods for isolation of nucleic acids" was invented by Zhiyang Zeng (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), Wenhui Zhou (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), Douglas R. Storts (Madison, Wis.), Poncho Meisenheimer (Madison, Wis.), Ian Marozas (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), Andrew Taft (Madison, Wis.), Spencer Hermanson (Madison, Wis.), Connor Fitzgerald (Madison, Wis.) and Kasen Riemersma (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compounds, compositions, and methods for rapid isolation of nucleic acids from a sample."

The patent was file...