ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,703, issued on July 1, was assigned to Biogen MA Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Assay for JC virus antibodies" was invented by Leonid Gorelik (Quincy, Mass.), Kenneth J. Simon (Cambridge, Mass.), Meena Subramanyam (Stoneham, Mass.) and Mia Marie Rushe (Everrett, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods and reagents for analyzing samples for the presence of JC virus antibodies."

The patent was filed on March 25, 2022, under Application No. 17/705,092.

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