US Patent Issued to Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties on Aug. 25 for "Methods of disease detection and characterization using computational analysis of urine raman spectra" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,845, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Methods of disease detection and characterization using computational analysis of urine raman spectra" was invented by John L. Robertson (Floyd, Va.) and Ryan Senger (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disease detection and characterization using computational analysis of Raman spectra is used to detect disease-specific multi-molecular patterns "spectral fingerprint" associated with specific diseases, cellular physiologic derangements, or altered metabolism from systemic reactions to disease. Comparison of the Raman spec...