US Patent Issued to Trustees of Boston University on June 17 for "Methods relating to lung cancer" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,771, issued on June 17, was assigned to Trustees of Boston University (Boston).

"Methods relating to lung cancer" was invented by Ana Brandusa Pavel (New York), Joshua David Campbell (Sharon, Mass.), Marc Elliott Lenburg (Brookline, Mass.) and Avrum Elliot Spira (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods and assays described herein relate to detection, diagnosis, and treatment of lung cancer, e.g., by detecting the level of expression of certain miRNAs described herein and/or by therapeutically increasing the level of those miRNAs."

The patent was filed on July 19, 2022, under Application No. 17/867,929.

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