US Patent Issued to IMPERIAL COLLEGE INNOVATIONS, The Regents of the University of California on March 11 for "Method of identifying a subject having Kawasaki disease" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,256, issued on March 11, was assigned to IMPERIAL COLLEGE INNOVATIONS Ltd. (London) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Method of identifying a subject having Kawasaki disease" was invented by Jethro Herberg (London), Victoria Wright (London), Michael Levin (London), Clive Hoggart (London), Myrsini Kaforou (London) and Jane Burns (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying a subject having Kawasaki disease (KD), which includes discriminating the subject from a subject having another condition, for example other infectious and inflammatory conditions, such as those that present si...