ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,760, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ASAHI SOFT DRINKS Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Method for detecting microorganisms" was invented by Makoto Aoyagi (Moriya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for detecting microorganisms, comprising an imaging step in which a membrane filter that filters a liquid is attached to a surface of a plate medium and cultured for a predetermined period of time, followed by peeling from the plate medium and fluorescently staining to capture fluorescence images; a learning data generation step of inputting, for each of the plurality of the fluorescence images, microorgan...