ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,326, issued on March 17, was assigned to Advanced Animal Diagnostics Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Methods and compositions for identifying a survivability index for an animal" was invented by Rodolfo R. Rodriguez (Cary, N.C.), Brian Pike (Durham, N.C.), Ada Tsoi (Morrisville, N.C.), Stefano Bresolin (Garner, N.C.), Jasper N. Pollard (Durham, N.C.), Joy Parr Drach (Pontiac, Ill.), Mitchell Hockett (Raleigh, N.C.), Norah Gerow Bate (Fuquay Varina, N.C.), Danielle Stewart Noel (Raleigh, N.C.) and Felipe Guirado Dantas (Sao Jose Do Rio Preto, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method of identifying and ...