ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,568, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Georgetown University (Washington).

"Method and system for assessing drug efficacy using multiple graph kernel fusion" was invented by Ophir Frieder (Chevy Chase, Md.), Hao-Ren Yao (McLean, Va.) and Der-Chen Chang (Burtonsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide techniques to predict the success or failure of a drug used for disease treatment. For example, a method of determining drug efficacy may include, for a plurality of patients, generating a directed acyclic graph from health related information of each patient comprising nodes r...