US Patent Issued to Rapid Pathogen Screening on July 28 for "Methods and devices for detecting MxA in a sample on a sample anaysis device" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,291, issued on July 28, was assigned to Rapid Pathogen Screening Inc. (Sarasota, Fla.).

"Methods and devices for detecting MxA in a sample on a sample anaysis device" was invented by Uma Mahesh Babu (Bradenton, Fla.) and Robert P. Sambursky (Lakewood Ranch, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods incorporate mucolytic agents into a point-of-care testing device. The sample is loaded, and then the sample travels until it encounters one or more lysis agents and/or mucolytic agents. The mucolytic agent is preferably pre-loaded onto the collection device. In a preferred embodiment, the mucolytic agent is localized between ...