US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Dec. 16 for "Antibodies for detection of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and methods of making and using same" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,444, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Antibodies for detection of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and methods of making and using same" was invented by Maxim Chacko-Joseph Cheeran (Apple Valley, Minn.), Venkatramana Divana Krishna Bhat (St. Paul, Minn.) and Maria Graciela Pieters Silva (Arden Hills, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Antibodies that detect M. hyopneumoniae, methods of making those antibodies, and methods of using those antibodies including, for example, in a diagnostic immunoassay, are described. Such a diagnostic assay may be used in pen-side testing for detection ...