US Patent Issued to Medical & Biological Laboratories, MBL Materials Co. Ltd. Medical & Biological Laboratories on Nov. 3 for "Additive, surface treatment agent, surface-modified latex particles, method for producing surface-modified latex particles, reagent for latex agglutination reaction, kit, and method for detecting target substance" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,345, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Medical & Biological Laboratories Co. Ltd. (Tokyo) and MBL Materials Co. Ltd. Medical & Biological Laboratories Co. Ltd. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Additive, surface treatment agent, surface-modified latex particles, method for producing surface-modified latex particles, reagent for latex agglutination reaction, kit, and method for detecting target substance" was invented by Yingjia Xu (Minato-ku, Japan), Masaaki Miyaji (Manato-ku, Japan), Kouji Tamori (Minato-ku, Japan), Tokio Sawai (Minato-ku, Japan), Hiroyuki Honma (Minato-ku, Japan), Naoki Hayashi (Minato-ku, Japan) and Shin-Ya Omote (Minato-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the ...