ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,811, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ascendant Diagnostics LLC (Springdale, Ark.).
"Methods of detecting cancer" was invented by Anna Daily (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Lindsay Rutherford (Fayetteville, Ark.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and kits for detecting cancer, and in particular breast cancer, in a subject by measuring the levels of at least one of a series of biomarkers, as compared to a control sample lacking cancer. The expression of the biomarker either increases or decreases in samples from subjects with cancer, as compared to the expression level in subjects without cancer. The sample is optimally an ocular sample, ...