US Patent Issued to HITACHI on June 10 for "Bacterium number measuring method and bacterium number measuring system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,874, issued on June 10, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Bacterium number measuring method and bacterium number measuring system" was invented by Shunsuke Kawabe (Tokyo), Yuichi Uchiho (Tokyo), Hideyuki Noda (Tokyo), Hideki Niimi (Toyama, Japan) and Atsushi Matsui (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a bacterium number measuring system comprising a database storing known bacterial growth patterns in advance and an analyzing part. The analyzing part has first cultures containing a bacterial liquid that contains a measurement target bacteria and second cultures being different from the first cultures and cont...