US Patent Issued to Ajinomoto on April 22 for "Evaluating method of ketosis in postpartum dairy cows" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,024, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ajinomoto Co. Inc. (Tokyo).

"Evaluating method of ketosis in postpartum dairy cows" was invented by Takashi Mikami (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Imaizumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takayuki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Miyazawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Mina Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuki Nakagawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takeshi Fujieda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An evaluating method includes an evaluating step of evaluating a state of ketosis in postpartum dairy cows for a dairy cow using at least one value of concentration values of Ala, Arg, Asn, Asp, BCAA, Cit, Cys, Glu, Gln, Gly, His,...