US Patent Issued to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R & DB FOUNDATION on July 22 for "Method for diagnosing ovarian cancer through microbial metagenome analysis" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,949, issued on July 22, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R & DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for diagnosing ovarian cancer through microbial metagenome analysis" was invented by Yoon-Keun Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Taesung Park (Seoul, South Korea), Yong Sang Song (Seoul, South Korea) and Se Ik Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of diagnosing ovarian cancer through microbial metagenomic analysis, and more particularly to a method of diagnosing ovarian cancer by analyzing an increase or decrease in content of specific bacteria or archaea-derived ex...