US Patent Issued to Kagami, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition on July 15 for "Method for determining glomerular filtration ability" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,117, issued on July 15, was assigned to Kagami Inc. (Osaka, Japan) and National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for determining glomerular filtration ability" was invented by Masashi Mita (Tokyo), Tatsuhiko Ikeda (Tokyo) and Tomonori Kimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for determining glomerular filtration ability on the basis of the amount of D-serine in the blood. The present invention provides a blood analysis system which includes a storage unit, an analysis measurement unit, a data processing unit and a glomerular filtration abilit...