ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,904, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to UEA Enterprises Ltd. (Norwich, Great Britain).
"Method for digesting nucleic acid in a sample" was invented by Justin Joseph O'Grady (Norwich, Great Britain), Gemma Louise Kay (Norwich, Great Britain), Themoula Charalampous (Norwich, Great Britain), Alp Aydin (Norwich, Great Britain) and Riccardo Scotti (Norwich, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods, compositions and kits for depleting host nucleic acid in a biological sample, said sample having been previously obtained from an animal host."
The patent was filed on Feb. 15, 2024, under Application No. 18/442,374.
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