US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Oct. 7 for "Inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis method, diagnosis probe and diagnosis kit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,149, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Miyagi, Japan).

"Inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis method, diagnosis probe and diagnosis kit" was invented by Tsuyoshi Shirai (Miyagi, Japan), Hiroshi Fujii (Miyagi, Japan), Tomonori Ishii (Miyagi, Japan), Hideo Harigae (Miyagi, Japan), Yoichi Kakuta (Miyagi, Japan), Atsushi Masamune (Miyagi, Japan) and Tomoyuki Mutoh (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a novel determination method, diagnostic probe, and diagnostic kit for inflammatory bowel disease. A method for determining inflammatory bowel disease includes measuring an anti-endothelial cell protein...