US Patent Issued to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on March 25 for "Cross-assembly phage DNA sequences, primers and probes for PCR-based identification of human fecal pollution sources" (Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,639, issued on March 25, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (Washington) and University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Cross-assembly phage DNA sequences, primers and probes for PCR-based identification of human fecal pollution sources" was invented by Orin C. Shanks (Lebanon, Ohio), Kyle J. Bibby (Granger, Ind.) and Elyse Stachler (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and reagents are used to determine the presence of human fecal contamination. These relate to detection of human crAs...