US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA on May 5 for "Cancer test method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,842, issued on May 5, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo) and UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (Tsukuba, Japan).

"Cancer test method" was invented by Hiroaki Tateno (Tsukuba, Japan), Tatsuya Oda (Tsukuba, Japan) and Osamu Shimomura (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for analyzing a biological sample obtained from a subject, comprising analyzing components contained in a biological sample by an assay using a first molecule selected from the group consisting of a molecule binding to a sugar chain bindable with BC2LCN, a molecule binding to Ser...