US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE on March 31 for "Method and apparatus for determining ketosis" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,944, issued on March 31, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Method and apparatus for determining ketosis" was invented by Ryoh Nakakubo (Ibaraki, Japan), Mitsuyoshi Ishida (Ibaraki, Japan), Genki Yoshikawa (Ibaraki, Japan), Kosuke Minami (Ibaraki, Japan), Gaku Imamura (Ibaraki, Japan), Hideki Matsuzaka (Ibaraki, Japan) and Takahiro Nemoto (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to make it possible to easily determine a presence or absence of ketosis and/or the possibility of ketosis in an animal on site or the like. Another object of the present in...