US Patent Issued to ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-Universita' di Bologna on July 1 for "Method for determining a head and neck squamous cell carcinoma" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,898, issued on July 1, was assigned to ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-Universita' di Bologna (Bologna, Italy).

"Method for determining a head and neck squamous cell carcinoma" was invented by Luca Morandi (Bologna, Italy), Davide Bartolomeo Gissi (Bologna, Italy) and Achille Tarsitano (Bologna, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention refers to a method performed in vitro to determine a Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, preferably at early stage, based on the measuring of the hypermethylation and/or hypomethylation level(s) of CpG islands of specific set of genes."

The patent was filed on Nov. 3, 2017, under Application ...