US Patent Issued to Maximus Diagnostic Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Methods of treating patients afflicted with irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease or chronic gastrointestinal functional disorders based on assessment of intestinal barrier function" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,385, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Maximus Diagnostic Technologies LLC (Decatur, Ga.).

"Methods of treating patients afflicted with irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease or chronic gastrointestinal functional disorders based on assessment of intestinal barrier function" was invented by Julia J. Liu (Decatur, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, the invention provides a method for identifying an agent beneficial to treat a patient with inflammatory bowel disease comprising: a) determining a status of an intestinal barrier in the patient; and b) categorizing the status as severe dysfunction or moder...