US Patent Issued to COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH on Feb. 10 for "Non-invasive paper based device for pregnancy detection in cattle and buffaloes" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,787, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC & INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH (New Delhi).

"Non-invasive paper based device for pregnancy detection in cattle and buffaloes" was invented by Govindhaswamy Umapathy (Hyderabad, India), Amit Asthana (Hyderabad, India), Mohan Rao Chintalagiri (Hyderabad, India), Vinod Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Suresh Gopi (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a kit and a novel method of extraction of a progesterone metabolite from feces/dung sample. The present invention also discloses a paper-based microfluidic device for detection of the progesterone me...