US Patent Issued to Sera Prognostics on April 14 for "Biomarkers and methods for predicting preterm birth" (Utah, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,744, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sera Prognostics Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Biomarkers and methods for predicting preterm birth" was invented by Durlin Edward Hickok (Seattle), John Jay Boniface (Salt Lake City), Gregory Charles Critchfield (Holladay, Utah) and Tracey Cristine Fleischer (Sandy, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides biomarker panels, methods and kits for determining the probability for preterm birth in a pregnant female. The present disclosure is based, in part, on the discovery that certain proteins and peptides in biological samples obtained from a pregnant female are differentially expr...