ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,558, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HOYU Co. LTD. (Aichi, Japan).
"Soybean allergy antigen" was invented by Kayoko Matsunaga (Aichi, Japan), Akiko Yagami (Aichi, Japan), Naoshi Shimojo (Aichi, Japan), Masashi Nakamura (Aichi, Japan) and Nayu Sato (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel antigens of an allergy to soybean, methods and kits for diagnosing an allergy to soybean, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such an antigen, soybeans or processed products of soybean in which such an antigen is eliminated, and a tester for determining the presence or absence of a soybean antigen in an ...