US Patent Issued to Inovotion, Hospices Civils De Lyon, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 on April 21 for "Animal model for amplifying human or animal circulating tumor cells" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,871, issued on April 21, was assigned to Inovotion (La Tronche, France), Hospices Civils De Lyon (Lyons, France) and Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (Villeurbanne, France).

"Animal model for amplifying human or animal circulating tumor cells" was invented by Xavier Rousset (Saint Martin d'Heres, France), Emilien Dosda (Chirens, France), Jean Viallet (Saint Martin d'Heres, France), Lea Payen-Gay (Caluire et Cuire, France) and Denis Maillet (Lyons, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an avian model enabling the amplification of human or animal circulating tumour cells (CTC) and to the use thereof fo...