US Patent Issued to Augusta SpinCo on June 23 for "Methods for enhancing specificity and sensitivity of group a Streptococcus immunoassay" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,421, issued on June 23, was assigned to Augusta SpinCo Corp. (Milford, Del.).

"Methods for enhancing specificity and sensitivity of group a Streptococcus immunoassay" was invented by Michael D. Fiechtner (Poway, Calif.) and Huimiao Ren (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and kits for detecting Group A Streptococcus in biological samples. More particularly, the present disclosure provides methods for enhancing the specificity and sensitivity of Group A Streptococcus immunoassays by including N-propionyl-D-glucosamine, 2-N-butanoyl-D-glucosamide, Bis-(2-(D-2-deoxy-glucosaminyl))-PEG3-amide,...