US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA on March 18 for "Early detection of colorectal cancer" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,521, issued on March 18, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C.).

"Early detection of colorectal cancer" was invented by Carole A. Oskeritzian (Columbia, S.C.), Franklin Berger (Columbia, S.C.), Alena P. Chumanevich (Lexington, S.C.), John W. Fuseler (Columbia, S.C.), Nabihah I. Kumte (Columbia, S.C.) and Ahmed Aladhami (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for detection of precancerous colorectal cancerous lesions and early stage colorectal cancer are described. The methods and systems include examination of a rectal cell sample for the presence of mast cells in a field effect dete...