US Patent Issued to BIOMERIEUX on Oct. 21 for "Method for quantifying at least one microorganism group via mass spectrometry" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,641, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BIOMERIEUX (Marcy l'Etoile, France).

"Method for quantifying at least one microorganism group via mass spectrometry" was invented by Chloe Bardet (Lyons, France), Tiphaine Cecchini (Saint Genis les Ollieres, France), Yannick Charretier (Courzieu, France), Jean-Philippe Charrier (Tassin la Demi-Lune, France), Christelle Compagnon (Lyons, France) and Tanguy Fortin (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for quantifying at least one microorganism group via at least one mass spectrometry analysis is described. The method includes at least one separation and fragmentation step. The me...