ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,174, issued on May 20, was assigned to Owlstone Medical Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Diagnosis of cancer" was invented by Max Allsworth (Cambridge, Great Britain), Edoardo Gaude (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Marc van der Schee (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the early detection and monitoring of the progression of cancer by detecting breath biomarkers is provided. The method comprises assessing the activity of an aldo-keto reductase by measuring the concentration of an exogenous substrate for said enzyme and/or measuring the concentration of a metabolite of said substrate in exhaled breath ...