US Patent Issued to NIHON UNIVERSITY, OSAKI CITY, Nippon Kayaku on April 1 for "Method for determining sensitivity to SGLT2 inhibitor and sensitivity marker for SGLT2 inhibitor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,356, issued on April 1, was assigned to NIHON UNIVERSITY (Tokyo), OSAKI CITY (Osaki, Japan) and Nippon Kayaku K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method for determining sensitivity to SGLT2 inhibitor and sensitivity marker for SGLT2 inhibitor" was invented by Tadateru Takayama (Tokyo), Masahiro Usui (Miyagi, Japan) and Keiko Kudo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The object of the present invention is to provide a method for determining the sensitivity of a subject to an SGLT2 inhibitor, and a sensitivity marker for the SGLT2 inhibitor. The present invention provides a method for determining the sensitivity of a subject to an SGLT2 inhibitor, compris...