US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Sept. 9 for "Methods, kits, and devices for diagnosing, prognosing, and treating psychiatric disorders in a patient" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,474, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Methods, kits, and devices for diagnosing, prognosing, and treating psychiatric disorders in a patient" was invented by Jiang Li (Chicago) and Herbert Y. Meltzer (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, kits, and devices for diagnosing and treating psychiatric disorders and the symptoms thereof. The methods, kits, and devices relate to identifying genetic markers that may be utilized to diagnose and/or prognose a patient and treat the diagnosed and/or prognosed patient by administering a drug the patient based on the genetic mark...