ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,632, issued on April 21, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Nanoparticle solutions, kits, devices and methods of use thereof" was invented by Laura Sutarlie (Singapore), Xiaodi Su (Singapore), Yang Xu (Singapore), Heng Li Chee (Singapore), Sian Yang Ow (Singapore) and Takuya Sato (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates, in general terms, to nanoparticle solutions, kits, devices and methods of use thereof. The present invention is suitable for use in quantifying bacterial cells in a sample. The method of quantifying bacterial cells in a sample comprises passing th...