ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,925, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Biogen MA Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Anti-VLA-4 related assays" was invented by Tatiana Plavina (North Reading, Mass.), Paula S. Hochman (Newton, Mass.) and Michaela Lerner (West Roxbury, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for assaying the level of analytes in a sample, related to VLA-4, are disclosed. A method of decreasing the level of an anti-integrin antibody in a subject is described including a) contacting a biological sample from a subject with a detectable capture agent associated with a substrate, wherein the capture agent can bind an anti-integrin antibody in th...