US Patent Issued to The Governors of the University of Alberta on Sept. 15 for "Treatment of autoimmune liver disease" (Canadian, Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,544, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to The Governors of the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).

"Treatment of autoimmune liver disease" was invented by Abdolamir Landi (Edmonton, Canada), Michael Houghton (Danville, Calif.), D. Lorne J. Tyrrell (Edmonton, Canada), Ferrucio Bonino (Pisa, Italy), Maurizia Rossana Brunetto (Pisa, Italy), Aldo Montano-Loza (Edmonton, Canada) and Ana Clementin (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and compositions that find use in identifying presence of an advanced stage autoimmune liver disease (ALD) is a subject diagnosed as having ALD. Also p...