US Patent Issued to THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST on March 24 for "Detection of Mycobacterium species" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,181, issued on March 24, was assigned to THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST (Belfast, Great Britain).

"Detection of Mycobacterium species" was invented by Irene Grant (Belfast, Great Britain) and Antonio Foddai (Belfast, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for detecting desired Mycobacterium species in a sample, the method comprising the steps of: a) mixing mycobacteriophage-coupled paramagnetic particles with the sample to form a reaction mixture under conditions suitable to allow the mycobacteriophage to bind to any mycobacteriophage-sensitive Mycobacterium species present in the sample; b) ...