US Patent Issued to AGGAMIN on Jan. 13 for "Methods and systems for treating or preventing pregnancy-related hypertensive disorders" (Maryland, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,665, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to AGGAMIN LLC (New York).

"Methods and systems for treating or preventing pregnancy-related hypertensive disorders" was invented by Woo S. Joo (Gaithersburg, Md.), Karen M. Lee (Massapequa, N.Y.), Adelene Y. Tan (New York), Garrett D. Daniels (Mamaroneck, N.Y.) and Paul Kussie (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for treating a pregnancy related hypertensive disorder, such as pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, using ex vivo treatment with an anti-sEng antibody bound to a solid support in order to reduce blood levels of sEng. The present invention provides a met...