US Patent Issued to Seattle Children's Hospital, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center on Sept. 23 for "Newborn screening for primary immunodeficiencies, cystinosis, and Wilson disease" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,440, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Seattle Children's Hospital (Seattle) and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle).

"Newborn screening for primary immunodeficiencies, cystinosis, and Wilson disease" was invented by Sihoun Hahn (Clyde Hill, Wash.), Sunhee Jung (Seattle), Jeffrey Whiteaker (Seattle), Troy Torgerson (Seattle), Amanda Paulovich (Seattle), Christopher Collins (Seattle) and Remwilyn Dayuha (Lynnwood, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Newborn screening for primary immunodeficiencies, cystinosis, and Wilson disease is described. The newborn screening can detect these disorders from dried blood spots alre...