US Patent Issued to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System on Dec. 23 for "Methods for the detection and treatment of lung cancer" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,430, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Methods for the detection and treatment of lung cancer" was invented by Samir Hanash (Houston), Ayumu Taguchi (Houston) and Ziding Feng (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and related kits for detection of early stage lung cancer, and determination of risk of harboring lung cancer."

The patent was filed on Feb. 9, 2018, under Application No. 16/484,177.

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