ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,528, issued on July 29, was assigned to Freenome Holdings Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Markers for the early detection of colon cell proliferative disorders" was invented by Brian D. O'Donovan (San Francisco) and Shivani Mahajan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, media, compositions, methods, and kits disclosed herein relate to a panel of autoantibody biomarkers for the early detection of colon cell proliferative disorders, including colorectal cancer. The presence or levels of the autoantibodies in a biological sample for the autoantibody panels described herein may be used for classifier generation, and ...