US Patent Issued to SEKISUI MEDICAL, SEKISUI CHEMICAL on July 14 for "Nucleic acid purification method, nucleic acid extraction liquid, and nucleic acid purification kit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,094, issued on July 14, was assigned to SEKISUI MEDICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and SEKISUI CHEMICAL Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Nucleic acid purification method, nucleic acid extraction liquid, and nucleic acid purification kit" was invented by Sou Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Katsura Uchida (Tokyo), Tatsunori Takamatsu (Tokyo), Takamasa Kouno (Osaka, Japan) and Takuya Kinoshita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a nucleic acid purification method capable of efficiently purifying a nucleic acid. The nucleic acid purification method including the steps of: mixing a nucleic acid with an antifoaming agent and a coprecipitation agent...