US Patent Issued to InfectoTest on July 1 for "Electrochemical D-lactate measurement for diagnosis and prognosis of an infectious disease" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,714, issued on July 1, was assigned to InfectoTest GmbH (Berlin).

"Electrochemical D-lactate measurement for diagnosis and prognosis of an infectious disease" was invented by Svetlana Karbysheva (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in vitro method for diagnosis, prognosis, risk assessment, monitoring, therapy guidance and/or therapy control of an infectious disease, includes (a.) providing a sample of a subject exhibiting clinical symptoms of and/or suspected of having an infection, (b.) determining a level of D-lactate in said sample, (c.) in which the level of D-lactate is indicative of the presence of an infectious disease, ch...