ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,675, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AMALIVE Ltd. (Aldridge, Great Britain).
"Methods of assessing hepatic encephalopathy" was invented by Stanley Bukofzer (Hazelwood, Mo.) and Regis Vilchez (Hazelwood, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods of treating or ameliorating hepatic encephalopathy (HE), including assessing the severity of HE in a patient suffering from HE, or the determining the presence or occurrence of an overt hepatic encephalopathy event. In particular, some aspects of the methods use a novel Hepatic Encephalopathy Staging Tool (HEST), which includes a set of criteria to categor...