US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN on Nov. 25 for "Detection of metastatic disease and related methods" (Michigan, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,162, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Detection of metastatic disease and related methods" was invented by Lonnie D. Shea (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Robert S. Oakes (College Park, Md.), Grace Bushnell (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Jacqueline S. Jeruss (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of determining a subject's metastatic potential, comprising measuring a level of expression of a gene, an RNA, or a protein, or a combination thereof, in a sample obtained from a synthetically-engineered pMN implanted in the subject, wherein the measured expres...