US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of California on July 8 for "Assessing transplant rejection status by analysis of t-cell receptor subunit repertoire diversity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,874, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Regents of The University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Assessing transplant rejection status by analysis of t-cell receptor subunit repertoire diversity" was invented by Minnie Sarwal (Portola Valley, Calif.), Marina Sirota (Belmont, Calif.) and Silvia Pineda San Juan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are novel methods of assessing transplant rejection status in a transplant recipient, such as a kidney transplant recipient. The diagnostic method identifies stable subjects, subjects undergoing cell mediated rejection processes, and subjects undergoing antibody mediat...