US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS on Jan. 13 for "Methods of detecting lung cancer" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,875, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE (Baltimore) and THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington).

"Methods of detecting lung cancer" was invented by Feng Jiang (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method of predicting whether a pulmonary nodule in a subject is benign or non-small cell lung cancer, comprising obtaining the results of an assay that measures an expression level of miR205-5p in a plasma sample from the subject; obtaining the results of an assay that measures an expression level of miR126 ...