US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on March 25 for "Tool for the communication of treatment option risks and benefits" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,941, issued on March 25, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Tool for the communication of treatment option risks and benefits" was invented by Robert Jeraj (Madison, Wis.) and Daniel Tyler Huff (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tool for assessing treatment options within a risk-benefit space (plotting risk against benefit) and provides a superimposed boundary indicating patient risk-benefit preference for assessment of these options. The patient risk-benefit preference can be used to identify a preferred treatment option, and interactive controls can be provided to change risk-benefi...