US Patent Issued to Washington University on Jan. 27 for "Methods and systems for noninvasive and localized brain liquid biopsy using focused ultrasound" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,765, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Methods and systems for noninvasive and localized brain liquid biopsy using focused ultrasound" was invented by Eric Claude Leuthardt (St. Louis), Gavin P. Dunn (St. Louis), Hong Chen (St. Louis) and Allegra Petti (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of a noninvasive and localized brain liquid biopsy using focused ultrasound. Briefly, therefore, the present disclosure is directed to methods and systems to identify brain lesion or tumor characteristics without the need for a solid brain ...