US Patent Issued to University of Hawaii on May 13 for "Point-of-care electroflotation of dispersed, low tolerance pathogens" (Colorado, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,349, issued on May 13, was assigned to University of Hawaii (Honolulu).

"Point-of-care electroflotation of dispersed, low tolerance pathogens" was invented by Lena Diaz (Morrison, Colo.) and Daniel Mckewn Jenkins (Honolulu).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to delivering sample preparation technologies to enhance the performance of point-of-care agricultural diagnostics by improving the capacity to detect trace contaminations of pathogenic organisms along the entire food supply chain including pre- and post-harvest processing and distribution. Sample preparation is crucial for adequate test performance of do...