ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,554, issued on July 21, was assigned to Caris MPI Inc. (Irving, Texas).

"Molecular profiling of tumors" was invented by Daniel D. Von Hoff (Scottsdale, Ariz.), David M. Loesch (Greenwood, Ind.), Arlet Alarcon (Phoenix), Robert J. Penny (Lebanon, Ind.), Alan Wright (Irving, Texas), Matthew J. McGinniss (San Diego), Ryan P. Bender (Phoenix) and Traci Pawlowski (Laguna Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and systems of molecular profiling of diseases, such as cancer. In some embodiments, the molecular profiling can be used to identify treatments for a disease, such as treatments that were not initial...