ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,081, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. (Hercules, Calif.).
"Detection of pathogens in wastewater" was invented by Monica Herrera (Dublin, Calif.) and Josh Shinoff (Emeryville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of concentrating RNA from wastewater and quantifying the RNA by digital amplification are provided."
The patent was filed on Oct. 21, 2021, under Application No. 17/507,472.
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