US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Aug. 4 for "Methods of predicting aneurysms of the ascending and descending aorta" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,531, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Methods of predicting aneurysms of the ascending and descending aorta" was invented by James P. Pirruccello (Boston) and Patrick T. Ellinor (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods of assessing a subject's risk of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm or descending thoracic aortic aneurysm by detecting one or more single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in one or more specific genes. The disclosure also provides methods of calculating a polygenic score to assess a subjects risk. Such methods may be used, for example, to identify asymp...