US Patent Issued to Phigenics on May 19 for "Viability detection and quantification assay of waterborne pathogens by enrichment" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,885, issued on May 19, was assigned to Phigenics LLC.

"Viability detection and quantification assay of waterborne pathogens by enrichment" was invented by Leah Wickenberg (Reno, Nev.), Katherine Fisher (Reno, Nev.) and William F. McCoy (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for detecting viable waterborne pathogens in a water sample, includes enriching a concentrate of bacteria from the sample and taking a first DNA extract at time T0 and a second DNA extract at time T2 after an incubation period. Real-time polymerase chain reaction performed on the DNA extracts yields respective cycle threshold values Ct. The change in ...