Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device for rapid detection of tuberculosis-lipoarabinomannan (TB-LAM) with enhanced sensitivity
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Application No.: US17091501Application Date: 2020-11-06
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Publication No.: US11726078B2Publication Date: 2023-08-15
- Inventor: Matthew Jeremiah Misner , Gregory Andrew Grossmann , Cathryn Ellen Olsen , John Richard Nelson , David Roger Moore , Paul Michael Smigelski, Jr. , John Thomas Connelly , Benjamin David Grant , Bernhard Hans Weigl
- Applicant: General Electric Company , Tokitae LLC
- Applicant Address: US NY Schenectady
- Assignee: General Electric Company,Tokitae LLC
- Current Assignee: General Electric Company,Tokitae LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Schenectady; US WA Bellevue
- Agency: Fletcher Yoder P.C.
- Main IPC: G01N33/493
- IPC: G01N33/493 ; C07K1/22 ; B01D15/08 ; G01N33/50 ; G01N33/569 ; B01D63/02 ; A61B10/00 ; C12M1/26 ; G01N33/558 ; G01N15/14

Abstract:
A device for rapid detection of a tuberculosis lipoarabinomannan (TB-LAM) is provided. The device includes a pre-concentrator unit for concentrating the TB-LAM comprising: an ion-exchange medium comprising one or more ligands configured to capture the TB-LAM from the source biological sample, wherein the captured-TB-LAM is eluted from the ion-exchange medium as an eluate comprising a concentrated form of TB-LAM; a cassette; a lateral flow assay unit disposed in the cassette; and an integration unit attached to the pre-concentrator unit and the cassette. The integration unit is configured to operatively couple and de-couple the pre-concentrator unit and the cassette. The pre-concentrator unit and the lateral flow assay unit disposed in the cassette are in a fluidic communication in a coupled form. The device for rapid detection of TB-LAM further comprises a dilutor unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210055282A1 DEVICE FOR RAPID DETECTION OF TUBERCULOSIS-LIPOARABINOMANNAN (TB-LAM) WITH ENHANCED SENSITIVITY Public/Granted day:2021-02-25
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