US Patent Issued to TORAY INDUSTRIES, NATIONAL CANCER CENTER on Nov. 4 for "Kit, device, and method for detecting lung cancer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,266, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TORAY INDUSTRIES Inc. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL CANCER CENTER (Tokyo).

"Kit, device, and method for detecting lung cancer" was invented by Yuho Kida (Kamakura, Japan), Satoko Kozono (Kamakura, Japan), Hiroko Sudo (Kamakura, Japan), Satoshi Kondou (Kamakura, Japan), Junpei Kawauchi (Kamakura, Japan), Takahiro Ochiya (Tokyo) and Shun-ichi Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a kit or a device for detection of lung cancer, comprising a nucleic acid(s) for detecting a miRNA(s) in a sample from a subject, and a method for detecting lung cancer, comprising measuring the m...