US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on Oct. 7 for "Direct immunoassay measurement of autoantibodies" (New Jersey, New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,148, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Direct immunoassay measurement of autoantibodies" was invented by James Freeman (Sandy Hook, Conn.), Mariah Arcuri (Norwood, N.J.), Cheryl Krumm (Yonkers, N.Y.) and Eddine Merabet (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are immunoassays for detecting an antibody in a biological sample from a subject and/or diagnosing an autoimmune disease in a subject. The disclosed immunoassays use a single, direct step to assess the level of antibody in a biological sample from the subject by simultaneously binding the antibody ...