US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Antibody based reagents that specifically recognize neurodegenerative disease related forms of the protein TDP-43" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,637, issued on May 27, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Antibody based reagents that specifically recognize neurodegenerative disease related forms of the protein TDP-43" was invented by Michael Sierks (Ft. McDowell, Ariz.), Stephanie Williams (Phoenix) and Lalitha Venkataraman (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to antibodies, antibody fragments and binding agents that specifically recognize TDP-43 associated with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), but not TDP-43 associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or TDP-43 associated with...