ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,993, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CITY OF HOPE (Duarte, Calif.).

"Methods, treatment, and compositions for characterizing thyroid nodule" was invented by Maria A. Hahn (Duarte, Calif.), John H. Yim (San Marino, Calif.), Yuman Fong (Duarte, Calif.), Arthur X. Li (Covina, Calif.) and Xiwei Wu (Diamond Bar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current disclosure provides, inter alia, method of determining benign nodules from thyroid cancer in a subject that is found to have a thyroid nodule, method of treating thyroid cancer in a subject detected to have thyroid cancer by the method of the current disclosure, compositions for...