US Patent Issued to CHA UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, SUNGKWANG MEDICAL FOUNDATION on Sept. 9 for "Analytic method and kit for diagnosing alcohol use disorders" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,473, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CHA UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Pocheon-si, South Korea) and SUNGKWANG MEDICAL FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Analytic method and kit for diagnosing alcohol use disorders" was invented by Kwang-Hyun Baek (Seoul, South Korea) and Soo-Ji Kang (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an analytical method for providing information necessary for a diagnosis of alcohol use disorder, including measuring (i) an expression level of a gene encoding a JNK or p-JNK protein in a subject's sample, (ii) an expression level of a gene encoding a JNK or p-JN...