US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS on May 26 for "Kidney health monitoring in hypertension patients" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,455, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington).

"Kidney health monitoring in hypertension patients" was invented by Michael George Shlipak (San Francisco), Michelle Estrella (San Francisco), Joachim H. Ix (La Jolla, Calif.) and Rebecca Scherzer (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods of determining whether a subject treated for hypertension should continue hypertension treatment. In exemplary embodiments, the method comprises measuring the level of...