ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,751, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to BLOOM TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kumamoto, Japan).

"Antibody against advanced glycation end products and use thereof" was invented by Tetsuro Yamamoto (Kumamoto, Japan), Shota Tsuchida (Kumamoto, Japan), Tomoaki Shigeta (Kumamoto, Japan), Kazumi Sasamoto (Kumamoto, Japan) and Mami Chirifu (Kumamoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to providing a monoclonal antibody having high selectivity and affinity for AGEs, particularly, AGEs derived from glyceraldehyde or AGEs derived from glycolaldehyde, and an analysis method utilizing the same. Another object of the present...