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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2002
Filed:
May. 02, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/00 ; C12N 1/20 ; B09B 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/00 ; C12N 1/20 ; B09B 3/00 ;
Abstract
Microorganisms are recovered from soil by suspending a soil sample containing the microorganisms in a buffer solution comprising an organic acid of 3 or more carbon atoms, and then separating the microorganisms into supernatant of the suspension. Furthermore, the citrate buffer is a citric acid and a salt of citric acid. Also microorganisms are separated from the soil particles and recovered from the suspension by centrifugation or electrophoresis.