US Patent Issued to Quest Diagnostics Investments on May 19 for "Methods for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,887, issued on May 19, was assigned to Quest Diagnostics Investments LLC (Secaucus, N.J.).

"Methods for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis" was invented by Erik P. Johnson (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Dale A. Schwab (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis based on an analysis of a patient sample. For example, patient test samples are analyzed for the presence or absence of one or more lactobacilli and two or more pathogenic organisms. The presence or absence of one or more lactobacilli and two or more pathogenic organisms may be detected using PCR a...