US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, NTN on July 28 for "Immunochromatography assay kit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,292, issued on July 28, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Shizuoka, Japan) and NTN Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Immunochromatography assay kit" was invented by Takahiko Hariyama (Hamamatsu, Japan), Hideya Kawasaki (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Hiroaki Ohba (Iwata, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An immunochromatography assay kit includes a specimen dropping portion to which a specimen is dropped, a conjugate portion to which a labeled antibody having a property of binding to a detection target in the specimen is immobilized, and a plurality of detection portions to which a capture antibo...