US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Exact Sciences on March 24 for "Detecting endometrial cancer" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,177, issued on March 24, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.) and Exact Sciences Corp. (Madison, Wis.).

"Detecting endometrial cancer" was invented by William R. Taylor (Lake City, Minn.), John B. Kisiel (Rochester, Minn.), Douglas W. Mahoney (Elgin, Minn.), David A. Ahlquist (Rochester, Minn.), Hatim T. Allawi (Middleton, Wis.) and Maria Giakoumopoulos (Middleton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is technology for endometrial cancer (EC) screening and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods, compositions, and related uses for detecting the presence of endomet...