ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,749, issued on April 14, was assigned to BANYAN BIOMARKERS INC. (Durham, N.C.).

"Biomarker detection process and assay of neurological condition" was invented by Kevin Ka-Wang Wang (Gainesville, Fla.), Ronald L. Hayes (Alachua, Fla.), Uwe R. Mueller (Alachua, Fla.) and Zhiqun Zhang (Auburndale, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robust, quantitative, and reproducible process and assay for diagnosis of a neurological condition in a subject. The method includes measurement of two or more biomarkers in a biological fluid such as CSF or serum resulting in a synergistic mechanism for determining the extent of neurological damage in a...