ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,877, issued on July 8, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for determining a treatment course of action" was invented by Ghassan Mouneimne (Tucson, Ariz.) and Marco Padilla-Rodriguez (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods of determining a treatment course of action. In particular, the present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for determining responsiveness to estrogen and estrogen blocking therapies for cancer."

The patent was filed on June 21, 2019, under Application No. 17/253,690.

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