US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Oct. 7 for "Methods and materials for treating cancer" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,236, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Methods and materials for treating cancer" was invented by Chih-Ping Mao (Baltimore), Shih-Chin Wang (Baltimore), Jie Xiao (Baltimore), Tzyy Choou Wu (Stevenson, Md.) and Chien-Fu Hung (Timmonium, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document relates to methods and materials for assessing and/or treating mammals (e.g., humans) having, or suspected of having, cancer. For example, methods and materials for identifying a mammal as having cancer are provided. For example, microfluidic devices that can be used to detect one or more target polypeptides (e.g...