US Patent Issued to KYORITSU SEIYAKU on July 8 for "Method of detecting heart failure, device for detecting heart failure, sandwich immunoassay method, and combination of antibodies" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,764, issued on July 8, was assigned to KYORITSU SEIYAKU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of detecting heart failure, device for detecting heart failure, sandwich immunoassay method, and combination of antibodies" was invented by Tomohiko Uda (Ibaraki, Japan), Saeko Kitayama (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kenyo Ishii (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem]To provide means for detecting heart failure more simply and highly accurately.[Solution Means]A method of detecting heart failure from a sample collected from an organism, the method comprising the step of: performing sandwich immunoassay of NT-proANP or a fragment thereof contained in ...