US Patent Issued to ALERTIX VETERINARY DIAGNOSTICS on March 17 for "Determination of canine TK1 protein levels" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,340, issued on March 17, was assigned to ALERTIX VETERINARY DIAGNOSTICS AB (Djurhamn, Sweden).

"Determination of canine TK1 protein levels" was invented by Staffan Eriksson (Lidingo, Sweden), Henrik Ronnberg (Uppsala, Sweden) and Kiran Kumar Jagarlamudi (Uppsala, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kit useful for determination of canine TK1 in a sample is disclosed. The kit comprises a first monoclonal antibody, or a fragment thereof, immobilized to a support or intended to be immobilized to a support. The kit also comprises a second monoclonal antibody, or a fragment thereof. One of the monoclonal antibodies has specificity for...