Patent 11236382 was granted and assigned to Integrated Nano-Technologies on February, 2022 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for preparing a sample by utilizing a shearing force in the presence of a size stabilizer to break apart the sample to obtain nucleic acid molecules in a usable size range. Once nucleic acid molecules are obtained, magnetic nanoparticles are used to concentrate and clean the nucleic acid molecules for further testing.