US Patent Issued to The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research on March 25 for "System, method, apparatus and diagnostic test for plasmodium vivax" (Australian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,387, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (Parkville, Australia).

"System, method, apparatus and diagnostic test for plasmodium vivax" was invented by Ivo Mueller (Mount Macedon, Australia), Takafumi Tsuboi (Ehime Prefecture, Japan), Michael White (Melbourne, Australia) and Rhea Longley (Brunswick West, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, apparatus and diagnostic test for Plasmodium vivax, to determine a likelihood of a specific timing of infection by P. vivax in a subject, and hence identify individuals with a high probability of being infected with other...