US Patent Issued to Nordic Bioscience on Oct. 27 for "Biomarker of fibrosis" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,016, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Nordic Bioscience A/S (Herlev, Denmark).

"Biomarker of fibrosis" was invented by Martin Pehrsson (Herlev, Denmark), Morten Asser Karsdal (Kobenhavn O, Denmark), Diana Julie Leeming (Klampenborg, Denmark), Mette Juul Fisker (Kobenhavn S, Denmark), Tina Manon-Jensen (Brondby, Denmark) and Joachim Hog Mortensen (Hundige Strand, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a sandwich immunoassay and kits for detecting in a biological sample cross-linked CTX-III, and its use in evaluating the efficacy of drugs targeting lysyl oxidases (LOXs). Cross-linked CTX-III can be us...