US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Aug. 4 for "Methods and related aspects for multiplexed analyte detection using sequential magnetic particle elution" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,618, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Methods and related aspects for multiplexed analyte detection using sequential magnetic particle elution" was invented by Tza-Huei Jeff Wang (Germantown, Md.), Alexander Y. Trick (Baltimore), Fan-En Chen (Baltimore) and Liben Chen (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are magnetofluidic cartridges of use in a wide variety of sample analysis applications, including nucleic acid amplification assays. The magnetofluidic cartridges include sample inlet wells and sample analysis wells for performing controlled serial elution techn...