ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,096, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Universal Diagnostics S.A. (Seville, Spain).

"Methods and systems for identifying methylation biomarkers" was invented by Marko Bitenc (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Kristi Kruusmaa (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Juan Martinez-Barea (Seville, Spain), Christian Hense (Seville, Spain), Pol Sola de los Santos (Seville, Spain), Pol Canal Noguer (Seville, Spain), Marko Chersicola (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and PrimoZ Knap (Ljubljana, Slovenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are various systems, methods, and apparatus for identifying biomarkers for detection of a disease or condition such as advanced aden...