US Patent Issued to Temple University -Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education on March 17 for "Gram-stain differentiation with nonlinear light scattering" (Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,271, issued on March 17, was assigned to Temple University -Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia).

"Gram-stain differentiation with nonlinear light scattering" was invented by Hai-Lung Dai (Wynnewood, Pa.), Mohammad Sharifian (Charlottesville, Va.) and Michael Wilhelm (Audubon, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to improved methods for characterizing the cell wall complex composition of a bacterial specimen via differential transport kinetics of a small molecule. The present invention also relates to improved and automated methods for Gram differentiation of a bacteria...