US Patent Issued to Ohio State Innovation Foundation on March 31 for "Methods and compositions for cardiovascular disease detection and management" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,974, issued on March 31, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Methods and compositions for cardiovascular disease detection and management" was invented by Sakima Smith (New Albany, Ohio), Craig Mcelroy (Lancaster, Ohio) and Patrick Dib (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compositions and methods for determining aberrant cardiac function or a predisposition to aberrant cardiac function, said method comprising detecting a fragment of BetaII spectrin associated with aberrant cardiac function or a predisposition to aberrant cardiac function in a sample derived from a subject, wher...