ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,961, issued on March 18, was assigned to BostonGene Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Hierarchical machine learning techniques for identifying molecular categories from expression data" was invented by Nikita Kotlov (Moscow), Zoia Antysheva (Moscow), Daria Kiriy (Moscow), Anton Sivkov (Arkhangelsk, Russia), Aleksandr Sarachakov (Altai Territory, Biysk District, Russia), Viktor Svekolkin (Ulyanovsk, Russia) and Ivan Kozlov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein in some embodiments is a method comprising: obtaining expression data previously obtained by processing a biological sample obtained from a subject; processing the exp...