EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Sept. 22, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NVE Corporation (Nasdaq: NVEC) has been awarded a grant by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) titled, “High Throughput Salmonella Detector.”

The two-year project will focus on detecting live Salmonella organisms in industry-relevant large sample volumes faster, and with significantly higher sensitivity than state-of-the-art methods.

The grant is for approximately $600,000.

A link to the project summary can be found on the “In the News” page of the company’s Website (www.nve.com).

NVE is a leader in the practical commercialization of spintronics, a nanotechnology that relies on electron spin rather than electron charge to acquire, store and transmit information. The company manufactures high-performance spintronic products including sensors and couplers that are used to acquire and transmit data. NVE has also licensed its spintronic magnetoresistive random access memory technology, commonly known as MRAM.

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