US Patent Issued to SEER on March 31 for "Systems and methods for discovery and analysis of markers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,948, issued on March 31, was assigned to SEER INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for discovery and analysis of markers" was invented by John T. Stults (Redwood City, Calif.), Alfred Greenquist (San Jose, Calif.) and Alexander Sassi (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A business method for use in classifying patient samples. The method includes steps of collecting case samples representing a clinical phenotypic state and control samples representing patients without said clinical phenotypic state. Preferably the system uses a mass spectrometry platform system to identify patterns of polypeptides in said ca...