US Patent Issued to TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY on March 31 for "Method and device for detection of ampicillin-resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,338, issued on March 31, was assigned to TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and device for detection of ampicillin-resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella" was invented by Shiuh-Bin Fang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Chiao Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wan-Hsuan Chou (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ke-Chuan Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and a device for determining whether a sample contains ampicillin-resistant (AMP-R) non-typhoid Salmonella (NTS). The method comprises detecting, in the sample, the presence of a combination of certain genes or their gene products, wherein the presence of said c...