US Patent Issued to Qiagen Sciences on Feb. 24 for "Analyte enrichment methods and compositions" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,785, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Qiagen Sciences Inc. (Germantown, Md.).

"Analyte enrichment methods and compositions" was invented by Jerzy Olejnik (Brookline, Mass.), Steven Gordon (Weston, Mass.) and Martina Werner (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and compositions for enriching a population of particles containing an analyte are disclosed. In one embodiment, enrichment beads are used that are larger in size than the beads used for amplification. A separation device is employed that can retain larger beads with bound amplified beads. The technique finds many uses, including enriching for beads with c...