US Patent Issued to National University Corporation University of Toyama on July 15 for "Method of pretreating blood sample" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,023, issued on July 15, was assigned to National University Corporation University of Toyama (Japan).

"Method of pretreating blood sample" was invented by Hideki Niimi (Toyama, Japan), Kazushige Sugie (Toyama, Japan), Isao Kitajima (Toyama, Japan), Tomohiro Ueno (Toyama, Japan) and Atsushi Matsui (Toyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of pretreating a blood sample for measuring ATP of a pathogenic microorganism in blood, comprising: preparing a pellet of platelets and the pathogenic microorganism from the blood sample; and subjecting the pellet of platelets and the pathogenic microorganism to the following steps (A) t...