ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,979, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Isolation of different extracellular vesicle (EV) subpopulations" was invented by Utkan Demirci (Stanford, Calif.), Mehmet Ozgun Ozen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Naside Gozde Durmus (Stanford, Calif.), Rakhi Gupta (Cupertino, Calif.), Sharon Pitteri (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Fernando Jose Garcia Marques (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extracellular vesicle-containing sample can be processed using a device for isolating one or more subpopulations of the extracellular vesicles. The extracellular ves...