ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,450, issued on May 6, was assigned to KAO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Examination method for dementia or risk thereof" was invented by Ren Kimura (Haga-gun, Japan), Hisashi Tsujimura (Utsunomiya, Japan), Masaru Tsuchiya (Saitama, Japan), Satoko Soga (Sumida-ku, Japan), Noriyasu Ota (Shimotsuke, Japan) and Hunkyung Kim (Asaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an accurate, minimally invasive method for diagnosing dementia or mild cognitive impairment. The method for examining the likelihood of mild cognitive impairment or dementia, or the risk of dementia includes the steps of: measuring the amount of stereoisomers of proline in th...