US Patent Issued to Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics on June 24 for "N-acetyl-D-glucosamine for enhanced specificity of strep a immunoassay" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,280, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc. (Raritan, N.J.).

"N-acetyl-D-glucosamine for enhanced specificity of strep a immunoassay" was invented by Peter Yan-Guo Ren (San Diego), Jason Mcclure (San Diego) and Kevin S. Richardson (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, compositions and kits for detecting Group A Streptococcus in a biological sample are described. More particularly, the present disclosure provides an immunoassay in which the specificity of detection of Group A Streptococcus is enhanced by addition of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine. These methods, compositions and kits are useful in conv...