Patents by Inventor Chikara OYAMA

Chikara OYAMA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • PROSTATE CARCINOMA DETERMINATION METHOD
    Publication number: 20180328930
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel Pca determination method and a Pca malignancy determination method. The present invention is an invention relating to a “prostate carcinoma determination method, including determining the ratio of the amount of free prostate specific antigen, which has a glycan in which the terminal sialic acid residue of the glycan is ?(2,3)-linked to a second galactose residue from the terminal of the glycan, to the amount of free PSA in a biological sample, and then determining that prostate carcinoma is developed or the probability of developing prostate carcinoma is high in the case where the ratio is 40% or higher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicants: FUJIFILM WAKO PURE CHEMICAL CORPORATION, HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Chikara OYAMA, Tohru YONEYAMA, Yuki TOBISAWA, Tomokazu ISHIKAWA, Tatsuo KUROSAWA, Kenji NAKAMURA