US Patent Issued to Prime Bio on Sept. 22 for "Method for the detection of Clostridium neurotoxins using a chimeric substrate fusion protein" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,784, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Prime Bio Inc. (North Dartmouth, Mass.).

"Method for the detection of Clostridium neurotoxins using a chimeric substrate fusion protein" was invented by Bal Ram Singh (Dartmouth, Mass.) and Raj Kumar (Dartmouth, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for detecting and assaying Clostridium neurotoxins and identification of serotypes of botulinum neurotoxins in various food matrices and clinical samples. This method is also used for detection of BoNT inside the neuronal and epithelial cells. The method comprises detecting and assaying the presence of a Clos...