US Patent Issued to BD KIESTRA on May 20 for "System and method for monitoring bacterial growth of bacterial colonies and predicting colony biomass" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,794, issued on May 20, was assigned to BD KIESTRA B.V. (Drachten, Netherlands).

"System and method for monitoring bacterial growth of bacterial colonies and predicting colony biomass" was invented by Raphael Rodolphe Marcelpoil (Corenc, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging method for earliest microbial growth detection. The method uses images to determined colony biomass, and the colony biomass determines when the colony can be picked for analysis for identification or antibiotic susceptibility testing. If the sample source is not a pure sample source additional incubation may be required to permit an increase in biomass ...