ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,529, issued on March 18, was assigned to C2N Diagnostics (Saint Louis, Mo.).

"Methods for the diagnosis and treatment of neurological and neurodegenerative diseases, disorders and associated processes" was invented by Tim West (St. Louis) and Andrew C. Paoletti (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally relates to methods for the diagnosis and treatment of neurological and neurodegenerative diseases, disorders, and associated processes. Specifically, the present invention is directed toward methods to determine prognosis, diagnosis or efficacy of a therapeutic regimen by using a detectable label to measure lev...