US Patent Issued to Ventana Medical Systems on Sept. 23 for "Materials and methods for performing histochemical assays for human pro-epiregulin and amphiregulin" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,201, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ventana Medical Systems Inc. (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Materials and methods for performing histochemical assays for human pro-epiregulin and amphiregulin" was invented by Fernando Jose Rebelo do Couto (Pleasanton, Calif.), Zhiming Liao (Livermore, Calif.), Andrea Muranyi (Tucson, Ariz.), Kandavel Shanmugam (Oro Valley, Ariz.), Shalini Singh (Tucson, Ariz.) and Yifei Zhu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides anti-human pro-epiregulin and anti-human amphiregulin antibodies and methods of using the same. Anti-EREG antibodies raised against amino acids 148-169 and 156-1...