ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,171, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PROMETHEUS LABORATORIES INC. (San Diego).

"Methods of disease activity profiling for personalized therapy management" was invented by Sharat Singh (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Nicholas Hoe (San Diego), Steve Lockton (San Diego), Scott Hauenstein (San Diego) and Linda Ohrmund (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides methods for personalized therapeutic management of a disease in order to optimize therapy and/or monitor therapeutic efficacy. In particular, the present invention comprises measuring an array of one or a plurality of biomarkers at a plurality of time poin...