2010-30608. Availability for Exclusive, Non-Exclusive, or Partially-Exclusive Licensing of an Invention Concerning the Clinical Decision Model

AGENCY:

Department of the Army, DoD.

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

Announcement is made of the availability for licensing of the invention set forth in patent application PCT/US2009/060850, entitled “Clinical Decision Model,” filed October 15, 2009. The United States Government, as represented by the Secretary of the Army, has rights to this invention.

ADDRESSES:

Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, ATTN: Command Judge Advocate, MCMR-JA, 504 Scott Street, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD 21702-5012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For patent issues, Ms. Elizabeth Arwine, Patent Attorney, [phone]. For licensing issues, Dr. Paul Mele, Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA), [phone], both at telefax [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The invention relates to a model for providing a patient-specific diagnosis of disease using clinical data. More particularly, the invention relates to a fully unsupervised, machine-learned, cross-validated, and dynamic Bayesian Belief Network model that utilizes clinical parameters for determining a patient-specific probability of malignancy, transplant glomerulopathy, healing rate of an acute traumatic wound, and/or breast cancer risk.

Brenda S. Bowen

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.