US Patent Issued to The Council of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research on Sept. 30 for "Methods and agents for determining patient status" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,477, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Council of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (Hearston, Australia).

"Methods and agents for determining patient status" was invented by Michelle Wykes (Herston, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and agents for predicting response to therapy, immune status and/or disease progression. More particularly, disclosed are methods, agents and kits for analyzing cellular distribution of PD-L2, including its nuclear localization, for stratifying a patient as a likely responder or non-responder to a therapy, for predicting treatment outcome of a patient with a...