US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on May 19 for "Methods for diagnosing and treating uveitis" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,653, issued on May 19, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Methods for diagnosing and treating uveitis" was invented by Vinit Mahajan (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions, methods, and kits are provided for diagnosing and treating uveitis. In particular, biomarkers have been identified that can be used to distinguish infectious uveitis from noninfectious uveitis, and further discriminate among bacterial, viral, and fungal uveitis. These biomarkers can be used alone or in combination with one or more additional biomarkers or relevant clinical para...