US Patent Issued to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY on April 14 for "Diagnosing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), predicting alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia onset, and screening and monitoring agents for treating mci or preventing dementia onset" (Maryland, West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,750, issued on April 14, was assigned to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY (Morgantown, W.va.).

"Diagnosing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), predicting alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia onset, and screening and monitoring agents for treating mci or preventing dementia onset" was invented by Florin V. Chirila (Morgantown, W.va.) and Daniel L. Alkon (Chevy Chase, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of detecting the signature of Alzheimer's disease before the clinical onset of the disease are disclosed, such as methods of diagnosing Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), monitoring the progress of MCI, and predicting the time to clinical onset...