US Patent Issued to INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH on March 3 for "Point of care device, method and kit involving club cell protein 16 as a marker for silicosis" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,182, issued on March 3, was assigned to INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH (New Delhi).

"Point of care device, method and kit involving club cell protein 16 as a marker for silicosis" was invented by Shyam Sundar Nandi (Mumbai, India), Upendra P. Lambe (Mumbai, India), Kamlesh Sarkar (Ahmedabad, India), Jagadish Mohan Deshpande (Mumbai, India) and Sonali Ankush Sawant (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a device and method based on lateral flow immunoassay for CC16 semi-quantification in serum sample. A novel membrane based semi quantitative detection of physiological/pathological levels of CC...