US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on May 26 for "Methods for detecting a food specific immune response" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,454, issued on May 26, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Methods for detecting a food specific immune response" was invented by Kathryn A. Peterson (Salt Lake City), Gerald J. Gleich (Salt Lake City), Mark D. Yandell (Salt Lake City), Edwin Lin (Salt Lake City) and Hedieh Saffari (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of diagnosing and treating a subject with active or inactive eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). The methods may include the steps of detecting whether a level of one or more immunoglobulin antibodies is elevated in an esophageal secretion sample obtained ...