US Patent Issued to MITSUI CHEMICALS, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA on May 27 for "Method for determining bacterial number in specimen" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,643, issued on May 27, was assigned to MITSUI CHEMICALS INC. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA (Toyama, Japan).

"Method for determining bacterial number in specimen" was invented by Hideki Niimi (Toyama, Japan), Isao Kitajima (Toyama, Japan), Akio Miyakoshi (Toyama, Japan) and Yoshitsugu Higashi (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for enabling rapid and accurate determination of the number of bacterial cells in a specimen using a PCR method includes the following steps: (1) a first PCR step of carrying out a PCR method using a nucleic acid derived from a specimen as a template and a u...