US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on July 7 for "Transport media for clinical specimen collection and molecular diagnostic applications and methods of production and use thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,157, issued on July 7, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Transport media for clinical specimen collection and molecular diagnostic applications and methods of production and use thereof" was invented by Alex Hofai Lee (Fremont, Calif.), Qi Dang (Union City, Calif.) and Jocelyn Lee (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport medium is disclosed that can be utilized for both sample collection and molecular diagnostic applications. The transport medium can be utilized with multiple types of biological samples and maintains the stability of nucleic acid present in the biological ...