US Patent Issued to Wayne State University, The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary Department of Health & Human Services on April 29 for "Kits and methods to distinguish false labor and true labor" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,340, issued on April 29, was assigned to Wayne State University (Detroit) and The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary Department of Health & Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Kits and methods to distinguish false labor and true labor" was invented by Adi L. Tarca (South Lyon, Mich.), Piya Chaemsaithong (Shatin, Hong Kong), Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa (Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.), Sonia S. Hassan (Novi, Mich.) and Roberto Romero (Grosse Pointe, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Kits and methods to distinguish between false and true labor are provided. The kits and methods can utilize differences in abundance and/or d...