US Patent Issued to Children's Hospital Medical Center on Dec. 16 for "Methods relating to sepsis associated acute kidney injury" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,383, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati).

"Methods relating to sepsis associated acute kidney injury" was invented by Hector R. Wong (Cincinnati) and Natalja Stanski (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods for determining whether a sepsis patient is likely to develop severe sepsis associated acute kidney injury (SA-AKI) using a combination of clinical data and biomarker data obtained during the first 24 hours following the subject's diagnosis with sepsis. The methods described here are useful for preventing SA-AKI in at-risk patients as well as for poin...