ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,941, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BostonGene Corp. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Pan-cancer tumor microenvironment classification based on immune escape mechanisms and immune infiltration" was invented by Sofya Kust (Yerevan, Armenia), Anastasia Zotova (Moscow), Elena Ocheredko (Yerevan, Armenia), Alexander Bagaev (Waltham, Mass.), Maria Savchenko (Yerevan, Armenia), Nadezhda Lukashevich (Yerevan, Armenia), Siune Ambarian (Yerevan, Armenia) and Michael F. Goldberg (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media that are useful for characterizing subje...