US Patent Issued to University of Louisville Research Foundation on Dec. 2 for "Plasma thermograms for diagnosis and treatment of acute myocardial infarction" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,246, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Plasma thermograms for diagnosis and treatment of acute myocardial infarction" was invented by Nichola C. Garbett (Louisville, Ky.) and Andrew P. DeFilippis (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of diagnosing a patient showing symptoms of acute myocardial infarction includes obtaining a plasma sample from a patient, performing a differential scanning calorimetry test on the sample to produce a thermogram, comparing the thermogram to reference thermograms, and determining if the patient has thrombotic myocardi...