US Patent Issued to CHA UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on April 8 for "Analysis method and kit for diagnosis of urolithiasis" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,079, issued on April 8, was assigned to CHA UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Pocheon-si, South Korea).

"Analysis method and kit for diagnosis of urolithiasis" was invented by Kwang-Hyun Baek (Seoul, South Korea) and Jun-Hyeok Park (Seongnam-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 urolithiasis, including measuring an expression level of a gene encoding a YOD1, USP6, USP19, PSMD14, or USP26 protein in a biological sample from a subject to be diagnosed; and a kit for a diagnosis of urolithiasis which is used in the analytic...