US Patent Issued to University of Cincinnati on April 22 for "Diagnostic tools and treatments for clear cell renal cell carcinoma" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,362, issued on April 22, was assigned to University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati).

"Diagnostic tools and treatments for clear cell renal cell carcinoma" was invented by Maria Franciszka Czyzyk-Krzeska (Cincinnati), Julio Alberto Landero Figueroa (Cincinnati), Jarek Meller (Cincinnati), David Plas (Cincinnati), Shuchi Gulati (Cincinnati), Bhargav Vemuri (Mason, Ohio) and John Thomas Cunningham IV (Maineville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of diagnosing the likelihood of recurrence of clear cell renal cell carcinoma is provided. The method involves a) detecting the gene expression signatures of mitochondrial electron transpo...