US Patent Issued to Rush University Medical Center on May 13 for "Transcriptomic index for characterizing the cellular repair response after soft tissue injury in diarthrodial joints" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,500, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rush University Medical Center (Chicago).

"Transcriptomic index for characterizing the cellular repair response after soft tissue injury in diarthrodial joints" was invented by Deva Chan (Chicago), Jun Li (Chicago), Anna H. K. Plaas (Chicago), John D. Sandy (Chicago) and Vincent Wang (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of the invention provides methods for classifying the quality of a repair response after injury to a joint of a subject. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a tissue sample from the injured region of the joint and determining expression levels in the sa...