US Patent Issued to MESO SCALE TECHNOLOGIES, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on May 12 for "Methods and kits for detecting tau" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,388, issued on May 12, was assigned to MESO SCALE TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Rockville, Minn.), The Henry M. Jackson Foundation For The Advancement Of Military Medicine Inc. (Bethesda, Md.) and The United States of America,as represented by the Secretary,Department of Health and Human Services (Bethesda, Md.).

"Methods and kits for detecting tau" was invented by Christopher Campbell (Columbia, Md.), Kimbra Kenney (Bethesda, Md.) and Jessica Gill (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods and kits for assessing brain injury, e.g., traumatic brain injury resulting from blast exposure. The invention provides meth...