US Patent Issued to Institute for Environmental Health on April 29 for "Rapid reliable detection of pathogens in fresh foods" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,315, issued on April 29, was assigned to Institute for Environmental Health Inc. (Lake Forest Park, Wash.).

"Rapid reliable detection of pathogens in fresh foods" was invented by Mansour Samadpour (Lake Forest Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods for rapid detection of microbial contaminants in fresh foods, involving obtaining a product sample (preferably at or near the time of harvest of the product), applying, prior to any chilling of the sample or the product, an amount of a enrichment medium sufficient to cover the sample surfaces to provide a non-chilled sample for incubation, incubating the non-chilled...