US Patent Issued to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education on Aug. 25 for "Combinatorial MAP antibody tests for detection and diagnosis" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,894, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Temple University-Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Philadelphia).

"Combinatorial MAP antibody tests for detection and diagnosis" was invented by John Todd Kuenstner (Abington, Pa.) and Raghava Potula (Dresher, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides kits for detecting Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) infection and biomarkers correlated with MAP-associated diseases or disorders. The present disclosure also provides methods of diagnosing a subject with a MAP-associated autoimmune disease or disorder and/or determining the treatment co...