US Patent Issued to Zoetis Services on July 1 for "Method of determining the identity and/or amount of an anti-IL-31 antibody in a sample" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,402, issued on July 1, was assigned to Zoetis Services LLC (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Method of determining the identity and/or amount of an anti-IL-31 antibody in a sample" was invented by Gary Francis Bammert (Portage, Mich.) and Steven Alan Dunham (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method of determining the identity and/or amount of an anti-IL-31 antibody in a sample. Such a method includes incubating a sample comprising an anti-IL-31 antibody with at least one mimotope selected from a feline IL-31 mimotope, a canine IL-31 mimotope, a horse IL-31 mimotope, and a human IL-31 mimotope; and det...