ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,954, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AMPEL LLC (Charlottesville, Va.).

"Unsupervised machine learning methods for classifying a lupus disease state of a subject" was invented by Robert Robl (Charlottesville, Va.), Prathyusha Bachali (Charlottesville, Va.), Amrie C. Grammer (Charlottesville, Va.) and Peter E. Lipsky (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for classifying lupus disease state of a patient is disclosed. The method can include analyzing a patient data set comprising or derived from gene expression measurements data of at least 2 genes, from a biological s...