US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on June 3 for "Methods for prostate cancer detection" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,971, issued on June 3, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Methods for prostate cancer detection" was invented by Jun Luo (Clarksville, Md.), Christian P. Pavlovich (Baltimore), William Brewster Isaacs (Reisterstown, Md.) and Jillian N. Eskra (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for a RNA in situ hybridization assay workflow for the detection of target RNA within intact cells for the detection of prostate cancer cells in urine samples. The methods disclosed herein can identify a genetic susceptibility to prostate cancer in a subject and differentiate high risk from low risk pros...