US Patent Issued to Duke University on March 11 for "Nasopharyngeal protein biomarkers of acute respiratory virus infection and methods of using same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,977, issued on March 11, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Nasopharyngeal protein biomarkers of acute respiratory virus infection and methods of using same" was invented by Thomas W. Burke (Durham, N.C.), Ricardo Henao Giraldo (Durham, N.C.), Erik Soderblom (Raleigh, N.C.), Joseph Lucas (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Christopher W. Woods (Durham, N.C.) and Geoffrey S. Ginsburg (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for determining the presence or absence of and/or the etiology of an acute respiratory viral infection in a subject, as well as methods of treating the subject based on t...