ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,739, issued on April 14, was assigned to Institute of Animal Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Beijing).

"Antibody detection test strip of integrating primary screening and diagnosis of sheep brucellosis" was invented by Hui Jiang (Beijing), Jiabo Ding (Beijing) and Yu Feng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antibody detection test strip of integrating primary screening and diagnosis of sheep brucellosis includes: a test strip 1 of primary screening and a test strip 2 of diagnosis, each including a PVC base plate, a sample pad, a colloidal gold labeled pad, a nitrocellulose membrane and an absorbent pad. Fo...