US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, MCMASTER UNIVERSITY on April 21 for "Method for diagnosing and monitoring inflammatory disease progression" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,622, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and MCMASTER UNIVERSITY (Hamilton, Canada).

"Method for diagnosing and monitoring inflammatory disease progression" was invented by Warren Foster (Ancaster, Canada), Jocelyn Wessels (Guelph, Canada), Sanjay Agarwal (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and Leyla Soleymani (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for diagnosing or monitoring endometriosis in a mammal are provided. The methods include the steps of determining the expression levels of BDNF, glycodelin and optionally ZAG, in a biological sample from the mammal, and...