US Patent Issued on July 22 for "Application of mechanical-force sensitive macrophage subset in pancreatic cancer diagnosis or prognosis evaluation" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,901, issued on July 22.

"Application of mechanical-force sensitive macrophage subset in pancreatic cancer diagnosis or prognosis evaluation" was invented by Hong Jiang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an application of a mechanical force sensitive macrophage subset in pancreatic cancer diagnosis or prognosis evaluation, in which it is found that a number of mechanical force sensitive macrophages of CD68+p-PYK2+YAP1+ in pancreatic cancer is obviously higher than that of an adjacent normal tissue, and the number of the macrophages is in positive correlation with a pancreatic cancer process, so that the mechan...