US Patent Issued to ASAHI KASEI on Aug. 4 for "Bacteriolysis method, bacteriolysis aid, and method for determining the presence or absence of bacteria" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,089, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ASAHI KASEI K.K. (Tokyo).

"Bacteriolysis method, bacteriolysis aid, and method for determining the presence or absence of bacteria" was invented by Yu Ando (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for lysing a group of bacteria in the sample, comprising the step of lysing the group of bacteria in the sample in a mixture solution obtained by mixing the sample, a bacteriolysis enzyme, and a bacteriolysis aid, wherein the bacteriolysis enzyme includes at least one bacteriolysis enzyme selected from the group consisting of lysostaphin, lysozyme, acetyl glucosaminidase, and endopeptidase, and wh...