ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,611, issued on March 25, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Device for detecting tomato pathogenic fungus and detection method using the same" was invented by Yoshifumi Kariatsumari (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a device for detecting a tomato pathogenic fungus, the device including an artificial cell wall, a test-sample-solution receptacle disposed over the artificial cell wall, and a culture-solution storage disposed under the artificial cell wall, wherein, in the culture-solution storage, a culture solution contains greater than or eq...