ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,009, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).
"Immune age and use thereof" was invented by Shai S. Shen-Orr (Haifa, Israel), Yishai Menachem Pickman (Lod, Israel) and Ayelet Alpert (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of determining an immunological age of a subject comprising measuring relative abundance of at least 3 immune cell populations in a blood sample from the subject and determining an immunological age of the subject based on the measured relative abundances are provided. Methods of diagnosing increased risk of illness and mortality are also provid...