US Patent Issued to SPHINGOTEC on Aug. 26 for "Method for diagnosing or monitoring kidney function or diagnosing kidney dysfunction" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,186, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SPHINGOTEC GMBH (Henningsdorf, Germany).

"Method for diagnosing or monitoring kidney function or diagnosing kidney dysfunction" was invented by Andreas Bergmann (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for (a) diagnosing or monitoring kidney function in subject or (b) diagnosing kidney dysfunction in a subject or (c) predicting or monitoring the risk of an adverse events in a diseased subject or (d) predicting or monitoring the success of a therapy or intervention comprising determining the level of Pro-Enkephalin (PENK) or fragments thereof of at least 5 amino acids in a bodily fluid ob...