US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on April 29 for "Analysis method, microorganism identification method, and testing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,339, issued on April 29, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Analysis method, microorganism identification method, and testing method" was invented by Koichi Kojima (Kyoto, Japan) and Koichi Tanaka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis method incudes: preparing a sample containing microorganisms; placing the microorganisms under a first condition and then performing a first mass spectrometry on a substance produced by the microorganisms; and obtaining information on characteristics or classifications of the microorganisms contained in the sample on a basis of a difference between a first data obtained in...