ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,786, issued on Sept. 22.
"Assay and kit for live antigen detection and monitoring of neurocysticercosis" was invented by Gunjan Goyal (Etawah, India) and Rakesh Sehgal (Chandigarh, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention broadly relates to the field of proteomics, bioinformatics & immunology for detection of Neurocysticercosis (NCC). More specifically, the present invention relates to an in vitro immunoassay for the diagnosis of active neurocysticercosis in biological samples. Further, the present invention relates to the identification of a novel antigen comprising of 219 amino acids of Putative lysine rich prote...