US Patent Issued to National Cheng Kung University on July 7 for "Biomarker for early detection of alzheimer disease" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,236, issued on July 7, was assigned to National Cheng Kung University (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Biomarker for early detection of alzheimer disease" was invented by Gwo-Giun Lee (Tainan City, Taiwan), Te-Han Kung (Tainan City, Taiwan), Tzu-Cheng Chao (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Yu-Min Kuo (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for providing biomarker for early detection of Alzheimer's Disease (AD), and particularly to a method that is able to enhance the accuracy of predicting AD from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) patients using the Hippocampus magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans...