US Patent Issued to The Brigham and Women's Hospital, The General Hospital on Dec. 23 for "Methods of identifying and treating a person having a predisposition to or afflicted with a cardiometabolic disease" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,733, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston) and The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Methods of identifying and treating a person having a predisposition to or afflicted with a cardiometabolic disease" was invented by Benjamin Levine Ebert (Brookline, Mass.), Siddhartha Jaiswal (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sekar Kathiresan (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to method for identifying and selecting a subject with increased risk of developing a cardiometabolic disease and optionally, providing a personalized medicine method, which may involve sequencing at least part...