US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Sept. 22 for "Accurate and comprehensive cardiac troponin I assay enabled by nanotechnology and proteomics" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,137, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Accurate and comprehensive cardiac troponin I assay enabled by nanotechnology and proteomics" was invented by Ying Ge (Madison, Wis.), Song Jin (Madison, Wis.), Timothy-Neil T. Tiambeng (Madison, Wis.) and David S. Roberts (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides mass spectrometry (MS) compatible nanomaterials for the selective capture and enrichment of low abundance proteins as well as MS analysis of different proteoforms of proteins, particularly cardiac proteins and different proteoforms of cardiac troponin...