US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 17 for "Cancer biomarkers and methods of use thereof" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,245, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Cancer biomarkers and methods of use thereof" was invented by Thea D. Tlsty (San Francisco), Hal K. Berman (Toronto), Mona L. Gauthier (Toronto), Bob Y. Liu (San Francisco), Colleen A. Fordyce (San Francisco), Curtis R. Pickering (San Francisco), Paul A. Reynolds (San Francisco), Nancy Dumont (San Francisco) and Geoffrey M. Benton (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides detection methods for detecting a pre-cancerous epithelial cell signature. The present invention further provides reagents for ...