ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,631, issued on May 27.
"High-throughput multiplexed sensitivity and resistance assay" was invented by Christian Apfel (Redwood City, Calif.), Chiara Maestri (Redwood City, Calif.), Rajeshwar Nitiyanandan (Redwood City, Calif.), Parthasarathy Chandrakesan (Redwood City, Calif.) and Ricardo Jerome Parker (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the clinic, most patients' cancer tissues have a heterogeneous histological appearance, often as a result of newly emerging and resistant cancer cell populations. Thus, viability tests to detect the sensitivity of a cancer tissue might not accurately predict a patient's tumor resp...