US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU, MEIJO UNIVERSITY on Sept. 16 for "Microorganism identification method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,641, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and MEIJO UNIVERSITY (Nagoya, Japan).

"Microorganism identification method" was invented by Hiroto Tamura (Kani, Japan), Naomi Yamamoto (Nagoya, Japan), Teruyo Kato (Aisai, Japan), Keisuke Shima (Kyoto, Japan) and Shinji Funatsu (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of identifying a serovar of Salmonella bacteria including a step of subjecting a sample containing microorganisms to mass spectrometry to obtain a mass spectrum, a step of reading a mass-to-charge ratio m/z of a peak derived from a marker protein from the mass spectrum, and...