US Patent Issued to RETHAM TECHNOLOGIES on July 22 for "Identification of platelet activating antibodies" (Wisconsin, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,584, issued on July 22, was assigned to RETHAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Identification of platelet activating antibodies" was invented by Anand Padmanabhan (Rochester, Minn.) and Curtis G. Jones (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for identifying pathogenic platelet-activating antibodies in a subject's blood and particularly antibodies implicated in heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) which comprises the preparation of a platelet releasate from a normal subject's platelets, the combination of the platelet release with a normal subject's platelets, a test subject's blood sample, and an...