ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,349, issued on April 22, was assigned to VARINOS INC. (Tokyo).
"Metagenomic analysis of microbial flora" was invented by Wataru Arai (Tokyo), Yoshiyuki Sakuraba (Tokyo) and Yoko Nagai (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of the present invention includes: performing clustering on a sample sequence, the clustering including the following: grouping base sequences having 100% similarity with each other, for the sample sequences thereby to generate a primary OTU (Operational Taxonomic Unit); and further performing the clustering on the sample sequences thereby to generate a secondary OTU composed of a sequence of a predetermined...