US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on April 7 for "Means and methods for detecting soy allergens" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,111, issued on April 7, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Means and methods for detecting soy allergens" was invented by Heide Havenith (Cologne, Germany), Holger Spiegel (Aachen, Germany), Stefan Schilberg (Aachen, Germany), Elke Ueberham (Leipzig, Germany) and Jorg Lehmann (Borsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of antibodies and their application in food and feedstuff quality control. In particular, the invention relates to a method for the manufacture of an antibody that specifically binds to soy Gly m 8 protein wher...