ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,172, issued on May 20, was assigned to ProSight Ltd. (Bat Yam, Israel).
"Method and system for analyzing prostate biopsy" was invented by Meir Weksler (Bat Yam, Israel) and Avi Simon (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of analyzing a biopsy sample containing tissue extracted from a prostate gland of a subject comprises measuring zinc level and an epithelial glandular tissue concentration in the sample, determining the likelihood that the sample is cancerous based on at least the zinc level and the epithelial glandular tissue concentration in the sample, and generating an output indicative of the likelihood."
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