US Patent Issued to THE U.S. EPA on Aug. 19 for "Early warning genetic testing of toxic cyanobacteria in water supply" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,996, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to THE U.S. EPA (Washington).

"Early warning genetic testing of toxic cyanobacteria in water supply" was invented by Jingrang Lu (Mason, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is at least one panel of qPCR/RT-qPCR assays which enables simultaneous testing for the presence of multiple species and subgroups of cyanobacteria that produce microcystin, anatoxin, saxitoxin, and cylindrospermopsin cyanotoxins. The method takes into account that some cyanobacteria species may carry genes associated with multiple toxin types. Testing for each toxin type is conducted under standardized test cond...