ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,076, issued on April 8.
"Method for identifying mastitis-causing microbes" was invented by Michael E. Hogan (Stony Brook, N.Y.), Frederick H. Eggers (Sahuarita, Ariz.) and Melissa R. May (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method for identifying a mastitis-causing microbe in a subject. A milk sample is centrifuged to form a microbial pellet, total nucleic acids are extracted from the pellet and a microarray analysis of extracted DNA from which the mastitis-causing microbe is identified from DNA hybridization to mastitis-causing microbe species-specific gene probes. Also provided is a method for diagnosi...