US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITY, SHIONOGI & Co. on Aug. 4 for "Heart failure marker" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,104, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KAGAWA UNIVERSITY (Kagawa, Japan) and SHIONOGI & Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Heart failure marker" was invented by Tetsuo Minamino (Kagawa, Japan), Shota Yokoyama (Kagawa, Japan) and Ryo Kawakami (Kagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring heart failure risk, including: (A) measuring an angiotensinogen amount value of urine collected from a subject; and (B) comparing an angiotensinogen amount value of urine previously collected from the subject with the angiotensinogen amount value measured in (A)."

The patent was filed on Nov. 6, 2020, unde...