US Patent Issued to Fry Laboratories on Sept. 22 for "Method and kit for characterizing microorganisms" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,210, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Fry Laboratories LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Method and kit for characterizing microorganisms" was invented by Stephen E. Fry (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Jeremy Ellis (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods of characterizing one or more microorganisms and kits for characterizing at least one microorganism. Exemplary methods include preparing an amplicon library, sequencing a characteristic gene sequence to obtain a gene sequence, and characterizing the one or more microorganisms based on the gene sequence using a computer-based genomic analysis of the gen...