US Patent Issued to YAMASA, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on Nov. 25 for "Method and kit for rapid measurement of autoantibody activity with respect to TSH receptor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,946, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to YAMASA Corp. (Chiba, Japan) and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Miyagi, Japan).

"Method and kit for rapid measurement of autoantibody activity with respect to TSH receptor" was invented by Atsushi Kawasaki (Chiba, Japan), Motoki Hoshina (Chiba, Japan), Junken Aoki (Miyagi, Japan), Kouki Kawakami (Miyagi, Japan) and Asuka Inoue (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method and kit that accurately measure autoantibody activity against a TSH receptor without pretreating a blood sample. The autoantibody activity against a TSH receptor in a blood sample is measured by using a kit for ...