ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,943, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MEDICINAL GENOMICS Corp. (Beverly, Mass.).
"Methods of detecting microbial content in Cannabis" was invented by Kevin J. McKernan (Beverly, Mass.), Yvonne Helbert (Beverly, Mass.) and Heather Ebling (Beverly, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a level of one or more live microbes in a sample of a Cannabis plant includes (a) introducing a DNase enzyme into a sample including (i) Cannabis plant matrix derived from lysed cells of a Cannabis plant and (ii) live microbial cells including microbial genomic DNA, (b) introducing an anionic detergent into the sample, where the...