US Patent Issued to HOYU on Jan. 20 for "Fish allergy antigen" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,845, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HOYU Co. LTD. (Aichi, Japan).

"Fish allergy antigen" was invented by Kayoko Matsunaga (Aichi, Japan), Akiko Yagami (Aichi, Japan) and Naoshi Shimojo (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel antigens of an allergy to fish, methods and kits for diagnosing an allergy to fish, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the antigen, fish or fish eggs in which the antigen is eliminated, a processed product of the fish or the fish eggs or fish which lay the fish eggs or have hatched from the eggs, and a tester for determining the presence or absence of a fish anti...