ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,317, issued on May 13, was assigned to Zhejiang SUKEAN Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).
"Tuberculosis detection kit" was invented by Pintong Huang (Zhejiang, China), Yajing Liu (Zhejiang, China), Yan Su (Zhejiang, China) and Chao Zhang (Zhejiang, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tuberculosis detection kit includes diagnostic reagents for 17 serum metabolites of patients with tuberculosis, the detecting reagent being used for quantitative detection of the 17 serum metabolites of the patients with tuberculosis, the 17 serum metabolites comprising D-Leucic acid, Leucinic acid, L-Cystine, MG(0:0/14:0/0:0), S-Lactoylglutat...