ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,945, issued on July 22, was assigned to Convergent Genomics Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Urinary microbiomic profiling" was invented by Trevor Levin (South San Francisco, Calif.), Kevin Phillips (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Christian Rees (South San Francisco, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for identifying and/or treating urinary disorders are provided. The methods and systems generally operate by obtaining a urine sample from a subject, identifying (such as by using nucleic acid sequencing) an abundance of a first set of one or more microbes (such as one or more bacteria or viruses) in the uri...