ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,605, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Lexington, Ky.).

"Machine learning algorithm for predicting clinical outcomes and identifying drug targets in ischemic stroke" was invented by Keith R. Pennypacker (Lexington, Ky.), Justin F. Fraser (Lexington, Ky.) and Qiang Cheng (Lexington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently-disclosed subject matter generally to methods for identifying and analyzing biomarkers to determine group effects. The presently-disclosed subject matter also relates to methods for identifying genes and proteins that increase or decrease in response to ischemic s...