US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on April 21 for "Methods for modeling hepatic inflammation" (Pennsylvania, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,206, issued on April 21, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Methods for modeling hepatic inflammation" was invented by Joyeeta Dutta-Moscato (Pittsburgh), Yoram Vodovotz (Sewickley, Pa.), Liang-I Kang (Clayton, Mo.), Kari Nejak-Bowen (Wexford, Pa.) and Qi Mi (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are in silico methods of modeling hepatic inflammation, fibrosis/cirrhosis, and cancer. The models are computer-implemented agent-based models and are useful in determining patient prognoses in hepatic conditions, including viral infections, damage, infl...