ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,560, issued on July 28, was assigned to INGENIERIE ET ANALYSE EN GENETIQUE ENVIRONNEMENTALE (Montpellier, France).
"Pathogen detection in liquid matrix" was invented by Franz Durandet (Montferrier sur Lez, France), Elodie Pichon (Montpellier, France), Jawhar Saksaka (Montpellier, France) and Olivier Couillerot (Assas, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, reagents and a kit for the detection of a pathogen in a test sample, notably a sample of an environmental water matrix. The method involves the detection by multiplex digital PCR (dPCR) of several pathogen sequences without prior purification of the sample. Also, a method f...