MUMBAI, India, May 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517024242 A) filed by Washington University, St. Louis, on March 18, for 'anti-tau mtbr antibodies and methods to detect cleaved fragments of tau and uses thereof.'

Inventor(s) include Bateman, Randall; Holtzman, David; Horie, Kanta; and Jiang, Hong.

The application for the patent was published on May 30, under issue no. 22/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided herein are antibodies, or fragments thereof, that specifically bind to a microtubule-binding region (MTBR) of tau, and uses thereof. Further provided are methods of detecting species of MTBR in blood or cerebral spinal fluid, and the use of s...