ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,778, issued on June 9, was assigned to NANOPIN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Gilbert, Ariz.).

"Monoclonal antibodies and uses thereof" was invented by Thomas Wray Tombler (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Christopher John Lyon (River Ridge, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates generally to isolated monoclonal antibodies that binds to an epitope of the 10 kDa culture filtrate protein (CFP-10) or a peptide fragment thereof, and methods for using the same to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis."

The patent was filed on April 8, 2021, under Application No. 17/768,818.

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