ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,146, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SYSMEX Corp. (Kobe, Japan).
"Method for measuring amyloid Beta peptide" was invented by Takuya Iino (Kobe, Japan), Shunsuke Watanabe (Kobe, Japan) and Kouzou Suto (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for measuring an ABeta peptide, comprising: mixing a blood sample comprising an ABeta peptide and an antibody that specifically binds to the ABeta peptide to form a complex of the ABeta peptide and the antibody; releasing the AP peptide from the complex with a basic solution comprising an organic solvent; and measuring the released ABeta peptide by mass spectrometry."...