ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,696, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to QIAGEN GMBH (Hilden, Germany).
"Method for isolating highly pure nucleic acid with magnetic particles" was invented by Jasper Stroeder (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Corinna Hochstein (Dusseldorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Subject of the invention is a method for isolating nucleic acid from a sample solution, wherein the nucleic acid is separated from the sample solution by adsorption to magnetic particles, followed by separation of the magnetic particles with the nucleic acid adsorbed thereto from the sample solution by application of a magnetic field, followed by at least one washin...