US Patent Issued to University of Miami on March 31 for "Materials and methods for extracellular vesicle detection" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,964, issued on March 31, was assigned to University of Miami (Miami).

"Materials and methods for extracellular vesicle detection" was invented by Sylvia Daunert (Miami) and Yu-Ping Yang (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method for detecting the presence of circulating extracellular vesicles in a subject. The method comprises contacting a biological sample from the subject with an antibody mimetic that specifically binds to a cell surface marker on the vesicles, wherein the antibody mimetic is coupled to a detectable label; and detecting presence of extracellular vesicles in the sample by detecting the prese...