ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,678, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AMPEL BioSolutions LLC (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Methods and systems for machine learning analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms in lupus" was invented by Katherine A. Owen (Charlottesville, Va.), Kristy A. Bell (Charlottesville, Va.), Jessica Kain (Charlottesville, Va.), Amrie C. Grammer (Charlottesville, Va.) and Peter E. Lipsky (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for machine learning classification and assessment of disease based on gene expression data. In an aspect, a method for determining a disease state of a subjec...