US Patent Issued to HOYU on May 19 for "Allergy antigen and epitope for same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,594, issued on May 19, was assigned to HOYU Co. LTD. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Allergy antigen and epitope for same" was invented by Kayoko Matsunaga (Aichi, Japan), Akiko Yagami (Aichi, Japan), Naoshi Shimojo (Aichi, Japan) and Fumiaki Ohno (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel antigens of an allergy to fish, methods and kits for diagnosing an allergy to fish, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such an antigen, fishes, fish eggs or processed products of such fish or fish egg in which such an antigen is eliminated, fishes that deliver such fish eggs or are born from such fish egg, and a tester f...