US Patent Issued to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York on March 3 for "Method and kit for determining the presence of monosodium urate crystals in joint synovial fluid" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,174, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (Albany, N.Y.).

"Method and kit for determining the presence of monosodium urate crystals in joint synovial fluid" was invented by Srinivas Pentyala (Albany, N.Y.) and Lawrence Hurst (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a kit and methods for using the same. The kit includes a plate including at least one well, wherein the well includes a silver nitrate and a catalyst. The method includes providing a sample of synovial fluid to a well of a plate, wherein the well includes a silver nitrate a...