US Patent Issued to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE on Oct. 14 for "Assays for detecting multiple tick-borne pathogens" (North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,048, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE (Washington).

"Assays for detecting multiple tick-borne pathogens" was invented by Adalberto A. Perez de Leon (Wake Forest, N.C.), Maria D. Esteve-Gasent (College Station, Texas), Pamela J. Ferro (Bryan, Texas) and Joseph J. Modarelli (Bluffton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Kits, methods, and material for use in detecting tick-borne microorganism(s) are provided herein. One is able to detect DNA from several different species of microorganisms from samples (bodily fluid, tissue, etc.) from ticks and/or mammals t...