US Patent Issued to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on Sept. 29 for "Compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis and prognosis" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,478, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Compositions and methods for cancer diagnosis and prognosis" was invented by Ayman F. Abuelela (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Alyaa M. Abdel-Haleem (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Xin Gao (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Jasmeen S. Merzaban (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and method of cancer diagnosis and prognosis are disclosed. The methods rely on the expression profile of a 55 O-glycan forming GT (OGFGT) genes in multi-dimensional space was sufficient to classify cancer types from cancer patient sampl...