US Patent Issued to Osaka University, Otsuka Pharmaceutical on July 22 for "Method of detecting conjunctival disease using ocular surface tissue, and aging biomarker" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,950, issued on July 22, was assigned to Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) and Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method of detecting conjunctival disease using ocular surface tissue, and aging biomarker" was invented by Kohji Nishida (Osaka, Japan), Noriyasu Hashida (Osaka, Japan), Tetsuya Iida (Osaka, Japan), Shota Nakamura (Osaka, Japan), Daisuke Motooka (Osaka, Japan), Kazunobu Asao (Osaka, Japan) and Satoru Ando (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting conjunctival diseases such as conjunctival MALT lymphoma, and an aging biomarker that serves as an indicator of the aging state of a subject are prov...