ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,804, issued on June 3, was assigned to MOLOGIC Ltd. (Thurleigh, Great Britain).

"Detection of cleavage activity of an enzyme" was invented by Paul Davis (Sharnbrook, Great Britain), Gita Parekh (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and James Schouten (Thurleigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to detecting cleavage activity of an enzyme. The various aspects of the invention include an enzyme detection device, kit, method and use for detecting or measuring the presence in a test sample of the activity of an enzyme capable of cleaving a substrate. The invention also relates to indicator and binding mo...