US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Feb. 4 for "Kit for preparing sample for detecting monoclonal antibody" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,126, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Kit for preparing sample for detecting monoclonal antibody" was invented by Takashi Shimada (Kyoto, Japan) and Noriko Iwamoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample preparation kit related to the present invention provides a significantly versatile analytical technique that is not affected by the diversity of antibodies, difference in species, matrix and the like. For preparing a sample to be used for detection of a monoclonal antibody through high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS), the kit includes a porous body for immobil...