US Patent Issued on Dec. 30 for "Biomarkers for a systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease activity immune index that characterizes disease activity" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,539, issued on Dec. 30.

"Biomarkers for a systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease activity immune index that characterizes disease activity" was invented by Melissa Munroe (Oklahoma City), Judith James (Oklahoma City), Eldon Jupe (Oklahoma City) and Mohan Purushothaman (Oklahoma City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for characterizing disease activity in a systemic lupus erythematosus patient (SLE), comprising obtaining a dataset associated with a blood, serum, plasma or urine sample from the patient, assessing the dataset for a presence or an amount of protein expression of at least one innate serum or plasma mediator, ass...