US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Aug. 25 for "Methods and systems for isolating and identifying nucleic acid from a plurality of microorganisms and viruses" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,062, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for isolating and identifying nucleic acid from a plurality of microorganisms and viruses" was invented by Tony Goldberg (Madison, Wis.) and Samuel D. Sibley (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metagenomic data are increasingly useful for detecting microbes, such as viruses and other microorganisms in a wide range of sample types. Methods and systems for isolating, detecting, and characterizing microbes in biological samples using metagenomic data are provided. Also disclosed are methods for identifying microbe...