US Patent Issued to Ares Trading on June 23 for "Methods related to the treatment of IgA nephropathy" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,386, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ares Trading S.A. (Aubonne, Switzerland).

"Methods related to the treatment of IgA nephropathy" was invented by Stephen Daniel Wax (Newton, Mass.), Roberto Bassi (Corte Madera, Calif.), Hans Guehring (Geisenheim, Germany), Christopher Tehlirian (Newton, Mass.) and Amy Hui-Chien Kao (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods related to the treatment of IgA nephropathy. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to methods for treating a patient having IgA nephropathy (IgAN), to methods for reducing the serum Gd-IgA1 level in a patient having...