US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 24 for "Immunochromatographic kit and method for detecting mycobacterium tuberculosis" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,281, issued on June 24, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Immunochromatographic kit and method for detecting mycobacterium tuberculosis" was invented by Tomoya Ohara (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Natsuki Oyabu (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Atsuhiko Wada (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan), Junichi Katada (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan) and Dai Ujihara (Ashigarakami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide an immunochromatographic kit and a method, which are capable of detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis with high-sensitivity and specificity. According to the present invention, an immunochromatograp...