US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Nov. 3 for "Infectious disease testing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,248, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Infectious disease testing method" was invented by Makoto Yasojima (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroaki Takemori (Kyoto, Japan), Fumi Daigo (Kyoto, Japan) and Takuya Tomono (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a test method for assessing the possibility of infection of residents without performing periodic PCR tests of residents of a facility in question. One embodiment is an infectious disease test method that includes a sampling step for collecting a sample from sewage during a sampling period in a route from where sewage is discharged ...