US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on March 31 for "Method for identifying marker for discriminating microorganism" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,972, issued on March 31, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for identifying marker for discriminating microorganism" was invented by Yuko Fukuyama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem to be solved] To provide a method for identifying a marker for discriminating a microorganism based on a small amount of actual measurement data.[Solution] A method for identifying a marker for discriminating a microorganism, including steps of: Step 1: Selecting a microorganism whose entire genome has been decoded, Step 2: Obtaining molecular weight-related ion peaks of a protein of the microorganism, Step 3: Obtai...