US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Aug. 25 for "Materials and methods for detecting and treating autoimmune movement disorders" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,893, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Materials and methods for detecting and treating autoimmune movement disorders" was invented by Anastasia Zekeridou (Rochester, Minn.) and Andrew McKeon (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Materials and methods are provided herein for detecting the presence of an autoantibody specific for PDE10A to identify the mammal as having an autoimmune neurological disorder as well as methods and materials for treating an autoimmune neurological disorder. Materials and methods also are provided herein for treating cancer ...