US Patent Issued to Cognext Diagnostics, The Johns Hopkins University on Nov. 25 for "Methods for diagnosing alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,961, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cognext Diagnostics LLC (Baltimore) and The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Methods for diagnosing alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders" was invented by Paul F. Worley (Baltimore), Meifang Xiao (Lutherville-Timonium, Md.) and Desheng Xu (Lutherville-Timonium, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for diagnosing a subject as having a neurological disorder, such as Alzheimer's disease, using proximity-based detection assays capable of detecting complexes containing two or more synaptic proteins, such as neuronal pentraxins, from a blood, cerebrospi...