ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,093, issued on May 20, was assigned to SHANGHAI ZJ BIO-TECH Co. LTD (Shanghai).

"Method and device for identifying specific region in microorganism target fragment and use thereof" was invented by Cong Ji (Shanghai), Junbin Shao (Shanghai), Yan Liu (Shanghai), Xia Qi (Shanghai), Yudan Jin (Shanghai) and Qiteng Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying presence of a microorganism in a sample has two processes. The first process comprises: S100, respectively comparing a microorganism target fragment with genome sequences of one or more comparison strain one-to-one, and removing fragments of which the similari...