US Patent Issued to EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika on Oct. 14 for "Method and reagents for diagnosing membranous nephropathy" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,823, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to EUROIMMUN Medizinische Labordiagnostika AG (Luebeck, Germany).

"Method and reagents for diagnosing membranous nephropathy" was invented by Inga-Madeleine Dettmann (Ahrensboek, Germany), Swantje Mindorf (Ziethen, Germany) and Christian Probst (Ratzeburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a diagnostically useful carrier coated with a recombinant polypeptide comprising SEQ ID NO: 1, an isolated autoantibody binding specifically to a polypeptide having SEQ ID NO: 1, a kit comprising the carrier, a method for the diagnosis of a membranous nephropathy (MN) that includes detecting th...