ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,876, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BanfieldBio Inc. (Woodinville, Wash.).
"Integrated method for arthropod acquisition, processing, identification and determination of pathogen burden" was invented by Michael Gilbert Banfield (Woodinville, Wash.) and John Harvey Borden (Burnaby, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention pertains to arthropods that cause disease in humans and animals or that serve as vectors of human and animal disease-causing pathogens. It comprises a novel method, wherein acquiring, processing, identifying and determining the pathogen burden in said arthropods is integrated into a single seamless seq...