ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,110, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam (Rotterdam, Netherlands).
"Method of diagnosing bladder cancer" was invented by Ellen Catharina Zwarthoff (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Annechiena Geertruide Van Tilborg (Gouda, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of diagnosing cancer in a subject comprising detecting in the DNA of said subject at least one hypermethylated CpG island associated with said cancer, wherein an elevation in the level of methylation in said CpG island of said subject, relative to the level of methylation in said CpG island of ...