US Patent Issued to Lexent Bio on Aug. 25 for "Methods of assessing and monitoring tumor load" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,101, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Lexent Bio Inc. (Boston).

"Methods of assessing and monitoring tumor load" was invented by Samuel Levy (La Jolla, Calif.) and John C. Spinosa (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention disclosed herein generally relates to methods of assessing and monitoring tumor load through analysis of tumor DNA in cancer patients. Quantitative measures derived from cell-free DNA and germline DNA are used to assess and monitor tumor load. By assessing and monitoring tumor load, cancer may be detected in a subject. The tumor load of a subject may be assessed at a number of different time p...