US Patent Issued to Transformative Biotech, The Regents of the University of Colorado on July 14 for "Devices and methods for extraction-free pathogen testing" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,130, issued on July 14, was assigned to Transformative Biotech LLC (Boulder, Colo.) and The Regents of the University of Colorado (Aurora, Colo.).

"Devices and methods for extraction-free pathogen testing" was invented by Robert E. Blomquist (Boulder, Colo.), Shi-Long Lu (Englewood, Colo.), Brian L. Harry (Denver) and Xin Yao (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides compositions, devices, methods and kits allowing for rapid diagnosis of infectious diseases via extraction-free, direct PCR techniques using combined biological samples."

The patent was filed on July 13, 2022, under Application No. 17/864,160...