US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on Nov. 25 for "Shrimp disease detection assays and uses thereof" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,167, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Shrimp disease detection assays and uses thereof" was invented by Luis F. Aranguren Caro (Tucson, Ariz.), Arun Dhar (Tucson, Ariz.) and Roberto Cruz Flores (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein various PCR based assays that can detect H. penaei and/or V. parahaemolyticus that causes AHPND in a nucleic acid sample obtained from one or more shrimp. In some aspects, the PCR based assays can detect one or more of the following genes: the flgE gene from H. penaei, the shrimp 18s rRNA gene, the ...