ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,524, issued on April 7, was assigned to Guardant Health Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Cancer evolution detection and diagnostic" was invented by Helmy Eltoukhy (Atherton, Calif.) and AmirAli Talasaz (Atherton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods for determining a probability that after any of a number of therapeutic interventions, an initial state of a subject, such as somatic cell mutational status of a subject with cancer, will develop a subsequent state. Such probabilities can be used to inform a health care provider as to particular courses of treatment to maximize probability of a desired o...