US Patent Issued to IMMUNDIAGNOSTIK on June 23 for "Rapid test for diagnosis of bacterial infections in neonates" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,417, issued on June 23, was assigned to IMMUNDIAGNOSTIK AG (Bensheim, Germany).

"Rapid test for diagnosis of bacterial infections in neonates" was invented by Franz-Paul Armbruster (Bobenheim-Roxheim, Germany) and Brigitte Koenig (Magdeburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a point-of-care test device for diagnosis and detection of bacterial infections and hidden septic processes in samples of bodily fluids of premature and newborns comprising a quantitative or semi-quantitative lateral flow immunoassay unit adapted for parallel detection of proteins of the S100 family and for several detection of incr...