US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Sept. 8 for "Artificial intelligence for early cancer detection" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,108, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Artificial intelligence for early cancer detection" was invented by Jaime F. Modiano (Minneapolis), Taylor A. DePauw (Minnetonka, Minn.) and Ali Khammanivong (Roseville, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and techniques are described for characterizing subjects, such as dogs or humans, into risk categories using a blood test. For example, a method includes marking a plurality of cells from a blood sample of a subject with antibodies that recognize a plurality of markers comprising at least two of AlphavBeta3-integrin, he...