US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Exact Sciences on June 10 for "Detecting breast cancer" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,878, issued on June 10, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.) and Exact Sciences Corp. (Madison, Wis.).

"Detecting breast cancer" was invented by David A. Ahlquist (Rochester, Minn.), William R. Taylor (Lake City, Minn.), Douglas W. Mahoney (Elgin, Minn.), Tracy C. Yab (Rochester, Minn.), John B. Kisiel (Rochester, Minn.), Hatim T. Allawi (Middleton, Wis.), Graham P. Lidgard (Middleton, Wis.) and Michael W. Kaiser (Stoughton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is technology for breast cancer screening and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods, compositions, and ...