US Patent Issued to Waters Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Methods for heat-assisted enzyme digestion" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,064, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Waters Technologies Corp. (Milford, Mass.).

"Methods for heat-assisted enzyme digestion" was invented by Wenjing Li (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Beatrice Muriithi (Attleboro, Mass.), Anna Boardman (Watertown, Mass.) and Matthew A. Lauber (North Smithfield, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a kit for sample preparation, the kit including a solid support surface with a polymer coating covering the solid support surface, wherein the polymer coating reduces undesired interactions between the sample and the solid support surface, a buffer comprising arginine and methioni...