US Patent Issued to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICIGAN on Sept. 8 for "Method for monitoring autoimmune disease" (Michigan, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,106, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Method for monitoring autoimmune disease" was invented by Lonnie D. Shea (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Robert S. Oakes (College Park, Md.), Aaron Morris (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Kevin Hughes (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of monitoring progression, regression, or stage of an AID in a subject, measuring a level of expression of a gene, an RNA, or a protein, or a combination thereof, in a sample obtained from a niche at the implantation site of a synthetic scaffold in the subject at a first time point ...