US Patent Issued to Cancer Research Technology on July 22 for "Methods for predicting treatment response in cancers" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,980, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cancer Research Technology Ltd. (London).

"Methods for predicting treatment response in cancers" was invented by Geoff Macintyre (London), James Brenton (London), Anna Piskorz (London) and Florian Markowetz (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods for predicting the treatment response of a cancer patient, using a tumour copy number profile for the patient. The method comprise analysing the copy number profile to assess whether the characteristics of at least one copy number feature are indicative of the presence of focal amplifications in the tumour genome, ...