US Patent Issued to BIO-RAD EUROPE on Sept. 15 for "Digital microbiology" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,735, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to BIO-RAD EUROPE GMBH (Basel, Switzerland).

"Digital microbiology" was invented by Christophe Quiring (Marnes la Coquette, France), Christine Favier (Marnes-la-Coquette, France), Patrice Sarfati (Marnes la Coquette, France), Jean Francois Mouscadet (Marnes la Coquette, France), Ronald Lebofsky (Sceaux, France) and Rebecca Dievart (Marnes la Coquette, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, compositions, and kits are provided for rapidly analyzing microbial growth and/or number in a plurality of water-in-oil emulsion droplets."

The patent was filed on April 8, 2024, under Application No....