US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Exact Sciences on Oct. 14 for "Detecting ovarian cancer" (Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,043, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.) and Exact Sciences Corp. (Madison, Wis.).

"Detecting ovarian 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 Michael W. Kaiser (Stoughton, Wis.).

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