Cholestech Corp.

Company announces U.S. and European patents for new HDL test

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, July 1st, 2005

Cholestech Corp. (CTEC) has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent Office (6,881,581) and the European Patent Office (EP 1,329,724) for a new method of measuring high density lipoprotein (HDL) in human blood.

The company believes that this patent provides a very different approach than those of other existing patents describing the measurement of HDL and that this patent also permits the development of the Cholestech LDX Lipid Profile/Alanine Aminotransferase (Lipid/ALT) cassette by preventing the interference of the HDL chemistry with the ALT assay on the same cassette.

Cholestech provides diagnostic tools and information to healthcare...

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Source: Medicine and Law Weekly (2005-07-01)

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