ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,579, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MeMed Diagnostics Ltd. (Tirat HaCarmel, Israel).
"Methods of prognosis and treatment" was invented by Eran Eden (Haifa, Israel), Kfir Oved (Hof HaCarmel, Israel), Assaf Cohen-Dotan (Natania, Israel), Roy Navon (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Olga Boico (Atlit, Israel) and Meital Paz (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a management course for treating a subject showing symptoms of a disease is disclosed. The method comprises measuring the TRAIL protein level in a blood sample of the subject, wherein when the TRAIL level is below a predetermined amount, the subject is treate...