US Patent Issued to Universiteit Hasselt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on April 14 for "Method and means for diagnosis of spondyloarthritis" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,738, issued on April 14, was assigned to Universiteit Hasselt (Hasselt Limburg, Belgium) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium).

"Method and means for diagnosis of spondyloarthritis" was invented by Patrick Vandormael (Stevoort, Belgium), Veerle Somers (Sint-Truiden, Belgium), Kurt De Vlam (Sint Martens Leerne, Belgium) and Dana Quaden (Diepenbeek, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention in general relates to the field of antibody profiling in spondyloarthritis. In particular, the inventors found that antibody levels against selected peptides are raised in spondylarthritis patients, and herein prov...