US Patent Issued to McMaster University on July 15 for "Method of determining risk of an adverse cardiac event" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,115, issued on July 15, was assigned to McMaster University (Ontario, Canada).

"Method of determining risk of an adverse cardiac event" was invented by Peter Kavsak (Burlington, Canada) and Andrew Worster (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of determining the risk of an adverse cardiovascular event or death in a mammal are provided which include determining in a biological sample obtained from the mammal the level of a combination of biomarkers selected from a glucose metabolism biomarker, a heart function biomarker, a renal function biomarker and at least one biomarker of cardiac injury. A score is allotted bas...