US Patent Issued to LSI Medience, Kyushu University National University on Sept. 22 for "Diagnosis method for bladder cancer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,781, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to LSI Medience Corp. (Tokyo) and Kyushu University National University Corp. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Diagnosis method for bladder cancer" was invented by Dongchon Kang (Fukuoka, Japan), Takeshi Uchiumi (Fukuoka, Japan) and Ko Igami (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Substances present in urinary microvesicles of bladder cancer patients are identified to thereby construct a method of assisting in early and accurate diagnosis of bladder cancer. In the assistant method, microvesicles are enriched, and whether or not the subject patient has bladder cancer is determined depending on the amoun...