US Patent Issued to Tatsuya Sawamura on Aug. 12 for "Fusion protein and high-density lipoprotein measurement kit using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,831, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Tatsuya Sawamura (Nagano, Japan).

"Fusion protein and high-density lipoprotein measurement kit using same" was invented by Tatsuya Sawamura (Matsumoto, Japan) and Akemi Kakino (Matsumoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fusion protein being a lipid-free reference standard having good long-term storability, which is used for measuring the quantity or quality of modified HDL, and a method for accurately, repeatability and reliably measuring high-density lipoprotein using the same. In the fusion protein, a complete protein sequence or partial fragment protein sequence for ApoA I is linked d...