US Patent Issued to EXOSOMICS on Sept. 2 for "Methods and kits relating to the capture of CA-IX positive exosomes" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,554, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to EXOSOMICS S.P.A. (Siena, Italy).

"Methods and kits relating to the capture of CA-IX positive exosomes" was invented by Antonio Chiesi (Siena, Italy), Natasa Zarovni (Siena, Italy) and Davide Zocco (Siena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and kits for isolating tumour-derived exosomes by immunocapture with an anti CA-IX antibody, quantifying tumour-related nucleic acid sequences from the isolated exosomes and determining in vitro the presence of a tumour in a subject are provided."

The patent was filed on June 21, 2018, under Application No. 16/623,360.

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