ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,904, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microbio Pty Ltd (Westlake, Australia).
"Biomarkers and uses thereof" was invented by Flavia Huygens (Westlake, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention generally relates to methods and agents for identifying and/or classifying microbes (especially bacteria), yeast organisms and filamentous fungi. In particular, the present invention concerns the discovery of unique single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA) and yeast organism and filamentous fungi 18S ribosomal RNA, and methods of classifying and/or identifying bacteria, yeast organisms...