US Patent Issued to Q-LINEA on March 4 for "Method for determining the concentration of intact microorganisms in a sample" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,113, issued on March 4, was assigned to Q-LINEA AB (Uppsala, Sweden).

"Method for determining the concentration of intact microorganisms in a sample" was invented by Jonas Jarvius (Uppsala, Sweden), Jan Grawe (Uppsala, Sweden) and Markus Klintstedt (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of determining the concentration of intact microorganisms in a sample comprising optionally diluting an aliquot of the sample to provide a diluted aliquot at a dilution value; contacting at least a portion of an aliquot or of a diluted aliquot of the sample with first and second stains capable of bind...