ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,735, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MICROBIA ENVIRONNEMENT (Saint-Jean Laseille, France).

"Use of probes to detect toxinogenic cyanobacteria, detection method and corresponding kits" was invented by Delphine Guillebault (Saint-Jean-Laseille, France), Elisa Villa (Port Vendres, France) and Linda Crawford (Pessac sur Dordogne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Probes for the detection of toxinogenic cyanobacteria, and the use of at least one pair of these probes in a method for the detection of the toxinogenic cyanobacteria in a sample likely to contain the toxinogenic cyanobacteria. Also, corresponding kits including at least ...