ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,792, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Swissdecode SA (Renens, Switzerland).

"Food certification system" was invented by Stefano Varricchio (Lausanne, Switzerland), Adrian Breitenmoser (Lausanne, Switzerland), Cylia Rochat (Chexbres, Switzerland), Fabien Frery (Neuvecelle, France) and Gianpaolo Rando (Blonay, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food certificate system comprising a certificate generation server, at least one reader comprising a control unit configured to operate a DNA test procedure and communicate with the certificate generation server via a global computer network, and a single-use capsule insertable in th...