Hygiena Announces New U.S. Patent for SalQuant Salmonella Quantification
Hygiena® recently announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted patent number 11,634,782, U.S. Patent Application No. 16/549,059, and an official registered trademark to protect its BAX® System SalQuant®. The patent has been effective since April 23, 2023.
Hygiena’s patented SalQuant, which was developed to meet increased demand for Salmonella quantification in One Health DiagnosticsTM applications, serves as an alternative to traditional, time-consuming methods. Using the multipurpose tool, processors can quantify Salmonella from the farm to final product to improve and verify sanitation and antimicrobial intervention processes, meeting more stringent regulatory and quality standards while protecting consumers by knowing the risk a positive sample could pose.