US Patent Issued to THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KOREA INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on Dec. 30 for "Composition for diagnosis of Sjogren's syndrome" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,727, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KOREA INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Composition for diagnosis of Sjogren's syndrome" was invented by So-Hyang Chung (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyun-Jung Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a composition for diagnosing Sjogren's syndrome in dry eye syndrome by using ATG5 or LC3B-II as a biomarker, a method of diagnosing the same, and a screening method. ATG5 or LC3B-II are used as a biomarker to effectively diagnose only Sjogren's syndrome except for non-Sjogren's syndrome in dry eye synd...