US Patent Issued to Dignity Health on March 18 for "Diagnostic or predictor of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,531, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dignity Health (San Francisco).

"Diagnostic or predictor of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis" was invented by Dolly Roy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method of detecting or predicting a relapse of multiple sclerosis in an individual afflicted with a form of multiple sclerosis, comprising: (a) providing a blood sample of the individual; (b) testing the blood sample to determine a protein activity or protein level, wherein the protein is Factor VIII, von Willebrand factor, or Protein C; and (c) detecting or predicting a relapse of multiple sclerosis in...