US Patent Issued to The State of Israel Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (Volcani institute) on June 2 for "Device and methods for detecting fungal pathogenicity in postharvest produce" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,159, issued on June 2, was assigned to The State of Israel Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (Volcani institute) (Rishon Lezion, Israel).

"Device and methods for detecting fungal pathogenicity in postharvest produce" was invented by Evgeni Eltzov (Ashdod, Israel) and Noam Alkan (Kidron, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a system and a method for detecting different developmental stages of fungi life cycle in postharvest crops. More particularly, the system comprises a measuring transducer, such as a CMOS photodetector and immobilized fungal nucleic ...