US Patent Issued to DENKA on Aug. 19 for "Method for quantifying the amount of cholesterol in high-density lipoprotein 3" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,787, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to DENKA COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method for quantifying the amount of cholesterol in high-density lipoprotein 3" was invented by Maiko Higuchi (Gosen, Japan) and Yasuki Itoh (Gosen, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that enables quantification of cholesterol in high-density lipoprotein 3 (HDL3) in a test sample without requiring a laborious operation is disclosed. The method for quantifying cholesterol in HDL3 comprises: Step 1 wherein phospholipase and/or sphingomyelinase is/are allowed to act on a test sample to transfer cholesterol to the outside of the reaction system; and Step 2 wh...