US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on June 24 for "Multi-protein biomarker assay for brain injury detection and outcome" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,288, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Multi-protein biomarker assay for brain injury detection and outcome" was invented by Allen D. Everett (Baltimore), Jennifer E. Van Eyk (Baltimore) and Frederick Korley (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of brain injuries. More specifically, the present invention provides methods and compositions useful in the diagnosis/prognosis/assessment of brain injuries. In a specific embodiment, a method for identifying which patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) require a head computerized tomography (CT) sc...