ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,098, issued on April 7, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).
"Device for volume coupling in epitachophoresis" was invented by Frantisek Foret (Brno, Czech Republic), Ivona Voracova (Brno, Czech Republic), Jan Prikryl (Brno, Czech Republic) and Jakub Novotny (Orlova-Lutyne, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Epitachophoresis (ETP) methods and devices that improve concentrating samples and/or separating components of samples. ETP methods and devices allow for electromigration in two dimensions. Electromigration of a sample may first occur in a first dimension along a single plane. Electromigr...