ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,745, issued on April 14, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Diagnostics of periodontitis" was invented by Bart Jacob Bakker (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Marinus Karel Johannes De Jager (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Amir Hussein Rmaile (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Philip Preshaw (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain) and John Taylor (Framlington Place, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an in vitro method for assessing whether a human subject has periodontitis. The method comprises detecting, in a sample of saliva from said subject, the concentrations of the proteins Hepatocyte Growth Facto...