US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on March 24 for "Compositions and methods for diagnosing and treating chronic kidney disease" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,924, issued on March 24, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Compositions and methods for diagnosing and treating chronic kidney disease" was invented by Qinghong Li (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods and compositions for diagnosing and enabling treatment of chronic kidney disease in a feline. In one embodiment, a method of diagnosing chronic kidney disease (CKD) in a feline can comprise measuring a normalized relative abundance of a first urine biomarker and determining if the feline has CKD, early-stage CKD, or late-stage CKD based on the n...