ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,362, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Hirotsu Bio Science Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).
"Method for examining cancer in pet animal" was invented by Takaaki Hirotsu (Tokyo), Satoru Kaifuchi (Tokyo), Toshimi Sugimoto (Tokyo), Hideshi Ishii (Tokyo), Masamitsu Konno (Tokyo), Yuji Ueda (Tokyo), Shogo Kobayashi (Tokyo), Hidetoshi Eguchi (Tokyo), Yuichiro Doki (Tokyo) and Masaki Mori (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of examining for cancer in a non-primate mammal such as a pet animal may include, for example, a method of examining or diagnosing for cancer in a non-primate mammal, including evaluating taxic behavior of nematodes ...