US Patent Issued to Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, Amprion on Feb. 3 for "Detection of misfolded alpha synuclein protein" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,949, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Board of Regents of the University of Texas System (Austin, Texas) and Amprion Inc. (San Francisco).

"Detection of misfolded alpha synuclein protein" was invented by Claudio Soto Jara (Friendswood, Texas), Mohammad Shahnawaz (Houston), Russell M. Lebovitz (Oakland, Calif.) and Benedikt K. Vollrath (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and kits are provided for amplifying and detecting AlphaS proteins from samples, for example, from patients having Parkinson's Disease. For example, a method for determining a presence of a soluble, misfolded AlphaS protein may include: contacting the sa...