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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2018
Applicant:
Covaris, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Inventors:
Hans-Ulrich Thomann, Stow, MA (US);
James A. Laugharn, Jr., Boston, MA (US);
Assignee:
Covaris, Inc., Woburn, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6806 (2018.01); C12N 15/10 (2006.01); C12Q 1/6869 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12Q 1/6806 (2013.01); C12N 15/1003 (2013.01); C12Q 1/6869 (2013.01);
Abstract
Focused acoustic treatment of samples may be used to differentially shear different fragment lengths of DNA or other nucleic acid portions of a sample. Relatively larger fragment lengths may be sheared while smaller fragment lengths are unaffected by the focused acoustic based shearing.