ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,637, issued on May 19, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Method for analyzing microorganism" was invented by Yuko Fukuyama (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for analyzing a microorganism including an identification step for determining which of abony and pakistan which are two serotypes of Salmonella bacteria is contained in a sample which contains either abony or pakistan, based on the presence or absence of a peak (or peaks) at a predetermined mass-to-charge ratio (or ratios) in a mass spectrum obtained by a mass spectrometric analysis of the sample, or a method for analyzing a microorganism includi...