ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,377, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to RANDOX LABORATORIES LTD (Crumlin, Great Britain).

"Biological status classification" was invented by Paul John Innocenzi (Waringstown, Great Britain), Stephen Peter Fitzgerald (Crumlin, Great Britain) and Ivan Robert McConnell (Crumlin, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of classifying a biological status of an individual. The method comprising: obtaining a biological sample from a patient; obtaining health-related information from the patient, said information including patient gender; analysing the sample to identify a quantity of each of 2 or more endogen...