ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,937, issued on March 24, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of tumor" was invented by Mark Dennis (San Carlos, Calif.), Bonnee Rubinfeld (Danville, Calif.) and Paul Polakis (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to compositions of matter useful for the diagnosis and treatment of tumor in mammals and to methods of using those compositions of matter for the same."

The patent was filed on March 16, 2022, under Application No. 17/655,136.

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