US Patent Issued to National University Corp. Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Nihon Techno Service, National University Corp. Oita University, Riken, Shimadzu on Nov. 18 for "Method for detecting microorganisms" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,591, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to National University Corp. Tokyo Medical and Dental University (Tokyo), Nihon Techno Service Co. Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan), National University Corp. Oita University (Oita, Japan), Riken (Saitama, Japan) and Shimadzu Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for detecting microorganisms" was invented by Norio Shimizu (Tokyo), Hiroshi Takase (Tokyo), Manabu Mochizuki (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Tomaru (Ibaraki, Japan), Satoko Nakano (Oita, Japan), Sunao Sugita (Saitama, Japan) and Masamitsu Shikata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for simultaneously detecting a plurali...