US Patent Issued to The George Washington University on Feb. 4 for "Blood biomarkers for appendicitis and diagnostics methods using biomarkers" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,215,386, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to The George Washington University (Washington).

"Blood biomarkers for appendicitis and diagnostics methods using biomarkers" was invented by Lakhmir S. Chawla (McLean, Va.) and Timothy A. McCaffrey (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods and kits for diagnosing and/or treating appendicitis in a subject, comprising obtaining a biological sample rom said subject; detecting RNA expression levels of at least three or more biomarkers in the biological sample and comparing the expression levels of said at least three or more biomarkers to a control sample wher...