US Patent Issued to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM, THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY on Oct. 6 for "Identifying and classifying microorganisms" (Texas, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,428, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas) and THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Bloomington, Ind.).

"Identifying and classifying microorganisms" was invented by Livia Schiavinato Eberlin (Austin, Texas), Sydney Povilaitis (Austin, Texas), Marta Sans Escofet (Austin, Texas), Jialing Zhang (Austin, Texas) and Lindsey M. Kirkpatrick (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a general aspect, microorganisms [e.g., bacteria, etc.) are identified and detected. In some examples, a liquid solvent is supplied through a first channel of a sampling probe to an internal reservo...