US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on May 26 for "Sample preparation and viral detection methods" (Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,705, issued on May 26, was assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Sample preparation and viral detection methods" was invented by Bin Guan (Rockville, Md.) and Robert B. Hufnagel (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of sample preparation for detection of nucleic acids (such as viral nucleic acids, for example, viral RNA) are provided. In some examples, the methods include contacting a sample with a solution including a buffer containing about 0-0.5 mM EDTA and a chelating resin and incubating the resulting mixture at a temperatu...