ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,159, issued on March 24, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Separation of nucleic acid component compounds on zwitterionic stationary phases" was invented by Kenneth Berthelette (Millville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure pertains to methods of separating nucleic acid component compounds from one another. In some embodiments, the methods comprise: (a) loading a sample fluid comprising a plurality of nucleic acid component compounds onto a chromatographic column comprising a zwitterionic stationary phase contained inside the column; (b) flowing a mobile phase through the chromatog...