ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,517, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOSOH Corp. (Yamaguchi, Japan).

"Method for separating antibody, and method for testing on disease" was invented by Yosuke Terao (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuyuki Akiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Endo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryoko Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present invention is to provide a method for detecting the presence or absence of a disease, the risk of developing a disease, the degree of progression of a disease and/or the degree of progression of aging, in a subject. The present invention achieves the above described object by a method including...