US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on June 23 for "Assessing and treating acute decompensated heart failure" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,388, issued on June 23, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Assessing and treating acute decompensated heart failure" was invented by Sasantha J. Sangaralingham (Rochester, Minn.), Xiao Ma (Rochester, Minn.) and John C. Burnett Jr. (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document provides methods and materials involved in assessing mammals with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF), as well as methods and materials involved in assessing outcomes. For example, methods and materials for using the level of plasma CNP and the level of urinary CNP to determine whether or...