US Patent Issued to The Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia on Feb. 10 for "Identification of novel loci in asthma and methods of use thereof for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,948, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Children'S Hospital of Philadelphia (Philadelphia).

"Identification of novel loci in asthma and methods of use thereof for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma" was invented by Hakon Hakonarson (Malvern, Pa.), Berta Almoguera (Philadelphia), Lyam M. Vazquez (Philadelphia) and Patrick M.A. Sleiman (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma are disclosed."

The patent was filed on July 21, 2017, under Application No. 16/318,720.

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