ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,537, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Council of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (Herston, Australia).

"Cancer diagnostic" was invented by Richard Lobb (Herston, Australia) and Andreas Moller (Herston, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of cancer. More particularly, the invention relates to methods of diagnosing and treating cancer, including determining a cancer type thereof. These methods involve the detection of markers in an exosome sample of the subject."

The patent was filed on Oct. 26, 2020, under Application No. 17/771,186.

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