US Patent Issued to Texas Tech University System on July 7 for "Methods and tools for predicting cardiometabolic health by combining blood T2 parameters with other measures" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,239, issued on July 7, was assigned to Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas).

"Methods and tools for predicting cardiometabolic health by combining blood T2 parameters with other measures" was invented by David P. Cistola (El Paso, Texas), Alok K. Dwivedi (El Paso, Texas) and Erin B. Campbell (El Paso, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments pertain to a method of assessing the cardiometabolic health of a subject by (1) receiving a plurality of parameters of the subject, where the plurality of parameters includes a T2 relaxation time constant of a subject's blood (T2 value) and one or more additional parameters; and (...