ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,896, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Freenome Holdings Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Antibody assay for the detection and treatment of liver cancer" was invented by Jared Allen (Nottingham, Great Britain), Isabel Macdonald (Nottingham, Great Britain), Andrea Murray (Nottingham, Great Britain) and Christopher Welberry (Nottingham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of detecting liver cancer in a mammalian subject by detecting an antibody in a test sample comprising a bodily fluid from the mammalian subject, wherein the antibody is an autoantibody immunologically specific fo...