US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Exact Sciences on April 14 for "Detecting gastric neoplasm" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,011, issued on April 14, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.) and Exact Sciences Corp. (Madison, Wis.).

"Detecting gastric neoplasm" was invented by David A. Ahlquist (Rochester, Minn.), William R. Taylor (Lake City, Minn.), John B. Kisiel (Rochester, Minn.), Tracy C. Yab (Rochester, Minn.), Douglas W. Mahoney (Elgin, Minn.) and Hatim T. Allawi (Middleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is technology relating to detecting neoplasia and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods, compositions, and related uses for detecting premalignant and malignant neoplasms s...