MUMBAI, India, May 1 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641051969 A) filed by Leena Titus, Thrissur, Kerala, on April 23, for 'lateral flow assay device for detecting and quantifying lipoprotein(a) in a blood-derived sample.'
Inventor(s) include Romy Roy; and Rajeshwari Kottilil.
The application for the patent was published on May 1, under issue no. 18/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A lateral flow assay (LFA) device and diagnostic kit for rapid detection and quantification of Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] directly from whole blood is provided. The device comprises a modular Blood Separation Unit s(BSU) with NFS5 and NVF2 glass fibre membranes for centrifugation-fr...