US Patent Issued to QUANTUM IP HOLDINGS on April 21 for "Use of magnetic nanoparticles for the detection and quantitation of analyte(s)" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,627, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUANTUM IP HOLDINGS PTY Ltd. (Chadstone, Australia).

"Use of magnetic nanoparticles for the detection and quantitation of analyte(s)" was invented by Paul Jeremy King (Melbourne, Australia) and Camden Yeung-Wah Lo (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method and device for detecting an analyte in a sample, comprising bringing a sample comprising a target analyte into contact with magnetisable particles, the particles being coated with binding molecules complementary to the target analyte, resulting in bound and unbound binder complexes, positioning the magnetisab...