US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation on Feb. 17 for "Devices and methods for extraction, separation and thermocycling" (Virginia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,888, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Devices and methods for extraction, separation and thermocycling" was invented by James P. Landers (Charlottesville, Va.), Jacquelyn A. DuVall (Raleigh, N.C.), Delphine Le Roux (Barboursville, Va.), Brian Root (Barboursville, Va.), Daniel Mills (Charlottesville, Va.), Daniel A. Nelson (Charlottesville, Va.), An-chi Tsuei (Charlottesville, Va.), Brandon L. Thompson (Charlottesville, Va.), Jingyi Li (Charlottesville, Va.) and Christopher Birch (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to extract, amplify and sep...