US Patent Issued to Sanofi on Aug. 11 for "Methods for verification of drug levels using dried blood samples" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,511, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Methods for verification of drug levels using dried blood samples" was invented by Aziz Filali-Ansary (Paris) and Patricia Zane (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods for monitoring treatment for multiple sclerosis in a pregnant subject, and determining the efficacy of a treatment for multiple sclerosis in a pregnant subject. These methods include (a) extracting a drug from a dried blood spot (DBS) sample from a pregnant subject after a treatment for multiple sclerosis has been administered to the pregnant subject; (b) performing mass spec...