US Patent Issued to UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS on Aug. 26 for "Methods of detecting inherited myopathies in horses" (New Mexico, Minnesota, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,426, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to UNM RAINFOREST INNOVATIONS (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Methods of detecting inherited myopathies in horses" was invented by Jeremy Scott Edwards (Albuquerque, N.M.), Paul Szauter (Albuquerque, N.M.), Robert B. Sinclair (Columbus, N.C.) and Kirsten Dimmler (St. Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes detecting four genetically distinct kinds of inherited myopathy in horses, referred to as Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy type 2 (PSSM2), or in some cases as Myofibrillar Myopathy (MFM)."

The patent was filed on May 23, 2019, under Application No. 17/263,757.

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