Patents by Inventor Eva Hänssler

Eva Hänssler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200239871
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for selectively depleting animal nucleic acids from non-animal nucleic acids in a sample, which comprises animal cells and at least one further type of cells, selected from microbial cells and plant cells or a combination thereof, to a lysis solution A to be used in and to a kit to carry out said method as well as to the use of a particular silica membrane as both, a filtration matrix for separating essentially intact microbial and/or plant cells from lysed animal cells and an adsorption matrix for nucleic acids, in particular in a method according to the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Johann KUBICEK, Thorsten SINGER, Antje-Katrin SANDER, Eva HÄNSSLER, Dominic O'NEIL
  • Patent number: 10655122
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for selectively depleting animal nucleic acids from non-animal nucleic acids in a sample, which comprises animal cells and at least one further type of cells, selected from microbial cells and plant cells or a combination thereof, to a lysis solution A to be used in and to a kit to carry out said method as well as to the use of a particular silica membrane as both, a filtration matrix for separating essentially intact microbial and/or plant cells from lysed animal cells and an adsorption matrix for nucleic acids, in particular in a method according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: QIAGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Johann Kubicek, Thorsten Singer, Antje-Katrin Sander, Eva Hänssler, Dominic O'Neil