US Patent Issued to Prometheus Laboratories on Sept. 23 for "Methods for assessing mucosal healing in inflammatory bowel disease patients" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,432, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Prometheus Laboratories Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods for assessing mucosal healing in inflammatory bowel disease patients" was invented by Anjali Jain (San Diego), Venkateswarlu Kondragunta (San Diego) and Michael Hale (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for assessing mucosal healing in a patient with Crohn's Disease. The methods include detecting expression levels of analytes in a serum sample from a patient, and applying a mathematical algorithm to the expression levels, thereby producing a Mucosal Healing Index score for the patient. The present ...