US Patent Issued to Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale on Dec. 2 for "Diagnostic and treatment of chronic pathologies such as Lyme disease" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,545, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris) and Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (Paris).

"Diagnostic and treatment of chronic pathologies such as Lyme disease" was invented by Hugues Gascan (Angers, France), Marc Michael Bransten (Vincennes, France), Sylvie Chevalier (Angers, France) and Hans Yssel (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to several biomarkers, including IL-1RA, IFN-Gamma and GM-CSF, whose expressions at the mRNA level and at the protein level, correlate with chronic pathologies, such as Lyme disease, in particular the...