ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,385, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HUNAN QIANKANG TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Changsha, China).

"Test strip and method for detecting amyloid beta in urine" was invented by Zhengqian Dai (Changsha, China) and Baijun Gu (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A test strip for detecting ABeta in urine includes a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) bottom plate. The PVC bottom plate is laid with a sample pad, a conjugation pad, a chromatography pad, and an absorbent pad that are overlapped in sequence. The conjugation pad is coated with colloidal gold particles conjugated to a monoclonal antibody. The chromatography pad is provided with ...