US Patent Issued to AllerGenis, ICAHN School of Medicine at Mount Sinai on Feb. 10 for "Peptides, reagents and methods for detecting food allergy" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,775, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AllerGenis Inc. (Wynnewood, Pa.) and ICAHN School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York).

"Peptides, reagents and methods for detecting food allergy" was invented by Robert C. Getts (Collegeville, Pa.), James Kadushin (Gilbertsville, Pa.), Hugh A. Sampson (Greenwich, Conn.), Ludmilla Bardina (Red Hook, N.Y.), Galina Grishina (Tarrytown, N.Y.), Gustavo Gimenez (New York) and Jing LIn (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are peptide biomarkers for diagnosis of allergy, monitoring development of clinical tolerance in an allergic individual, and predicting whether an allergic su...