US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI BLOOD CENTER on May 19 for "Kit for genotyping of platelet and neutrophil antigens and glycoproteins" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,876, issued on May 19, was assigned to SHANGHAI BLOOD CENTER (Shanghai).

"Kit for genotyping of platelet and neutrophil antigens and glycoproteins" was invented by Luyi Ye (Shanghai), Huijun Zhu (Shanghai), Ruishu Li (Shanghai), Min Fu (Shanghai), Ping Lu (Shanghai) and Ziyan Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a mass spectrometry-based method and a kit for genotyping of platelet and neutrophil antigens and glycoproteins, which are used for genotyping of platelet-specific antigens, platelet CD36 glycoproteins and neutrophil antigens; by designing an optimal primer combination, problems such as h...