US Patent Issued to Washington University on May 27 for "Methods and systems for noninvasive and localized brain liquid biopsy using focused ultrasound" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,697, issued on May 27, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Methods and systems for noninvasive and localized brain liquid biopsy using focused ultrasound" was invented by Hong Chen (St. Louis), Arash Nazeri (St. Louis), Christopher Pacia (St. Louis) and Eric Leuthardt (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of a noninvasive and localized brain liquid biopsy using focused ultrasound. Briefly, therefore, the present disclosure is directed to methods and systems to identify brain lesion or tumor characteristics without the need for a solid brain biops...