US Patent Issued to Academia Sinica on March 18 for "Methods and kits for diagnosing and/or treating peripheral neuropathy" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,551, issued on March 18, was assigned to Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Methods and kits for diagnosing and/or treating peripheral neuropathy" was invented by Chih-Cheng Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Chia Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are method and/or kit for rendering a diagnosis on whether a subject is suffering from peripheral neuropathy pain. The method comprises detecting the presence of advillin in a biological sample by forming an immune complex between advillin and a monoclonal antibody specifically binds thereto. Also disclosed herein is a method of treating a subject suffering f...