ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,981, issued on March 11, was assigned to FONS JK Group a.s. (Pardubice, Czech Republic).

"Method of diagnosing cancer based on lipidomic analysis of a body fluid" was invented by Michal Holcapek (Stare Hradiste, Czech Republic), Eva Cifkova (Krhova, Czech Republic), Miroslav Lisa (Bezdekov, Czech Republic), Robert Jirasko (Pardubice, Czech Republic), Denise Wolrab (Vienna) and Tereza Hrnciarova (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of diagnosing cancer based on lipidomic analysis of a body fluid taken from the body of a patient is disclosed. The method includes the steps of spiking of the sample with a set of internal stan...