US Patent Issued to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide on March 3 for "Methods and consumer products for detecting a metabolite" (Wisconsin, California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,161, issued on March 3, was assigned to Kimberly-Clark Worldwide Inc. (Neenah, Wis.).

"Methods and consumer products for detecting a metabolite" was invented by Elizabeth M. Doney (Appleton, Wis.), Kathleen C. Engelbrecht (Kaukauna, Wis.), David W. Koenig (Menasha, Wis.), Stephen Quirk (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Kassi Kosnicki (La Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and consumer products for detecting a metabolite, the method comprising: testing a urine sample from a subject for a metabolite selected from the group consisting of ascorbate, dehydroascorbate, CEHC-sulfate, CEHC-taurine, CEHC-glucronide, pantoate, 5-amino val...