US Patent Issued to PROVIGATE on Jan. 13 for "Medium for separating and storing blood plasma or serum, method for producing the medium, device, kit, and method for measuring glycated protein" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,582, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to PROVIGATE INC. (Tokyo).

"Medium for separating and storing blood plasma or serum, method for producing the medium, device, kit, and method for measuring glycated protein" was invented by Mitsumi Nishi (Tokyo), Noriko Miyauchi (Tokyo) and Yuuya Miyazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a medium with which blood plasma is separated and stored, the medium including a porous medium for separation of blood plasma and a substance supported on the porous medium, the substance that suppresses glycation of a protein by glucose, is provided."

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