US Patent Issued to Inova Diagnostics on May 13 for "Compositions and methods for diagnosing and assessing rheumatoid arthritis" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,304, issued on May 13, was assigned to Inova Diagnostics Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions and methods for diagnosing and assessing rheumatoid arthritis" was invented by Michael Mahler (Bad Neuenahr, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the use of anti-PAD IgA as a clinical biomarker for diagnostic and prognostic information in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. The disclosure further provides methods and compositions for the detection anti-PAD IgA in a biological sample."

The patent was filed on Feb. 14, 2020, under Application No. 16/791,779.

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