US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE TOKYO on March 3 for "Cartilage degeneration analysis device, device for diagnosing or aiding diagnosis which contains same, method for determining degree of degeneration of cartilage, and method for evaluating drug efficacy of test substance" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,354, issued on March 3, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE TOKYO (Tokyo).

"Cartilage degeneration analysis device, device for diagnosing or aiding diagnosis which contains same, method for determining degree of degeneration of cartilage, and method for evaluating drug efficacy of test substance" was invented by Keiji Itaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an analyzer which detects an initial stage of cartilage degeneration due to a disease such as osteoarthritis. One aspect of the present invention relates to a cartilage degeneration analyzer having a processor which includes an index calculator configured to...