US Patent Issued to JAPAN AGRICULTURAL FRONTIER DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION on Dec. 2 for "Disease evaluation index calculation method, apparatus, system, and program, and model creation method for calculating disease evaluation index" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,898, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to JAPAN AGRICULTURAL FRONTIER DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION (Tokyo).

"Disease evaluation index calculation method, apparatus, system, and program, and model creation method for calculating disease evaluation index" was invented by Hiroaki Masuyama (Tokyo), Kazumi Hasuko (Kashiwa, Japan) and Shozo Motokawa (Shiki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for calculating a disease evaluation index using intestinal flora is presented. A disease evaluation index calculation method includes a step of inputting one or more diseases that a user wants to be aware of; a step of extracting the user's inte...