ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,178, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GUARDANT HEALTH INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Population based treatment recommender using cell free dna" was invented by Helmy Eltoukhy (Atherton, Calif.) and AmirAli Talasaz (Atherton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a therapeutic response predict or detecting a disease, by: using a genetic analyzer to generate genetic information; receiving into computer memory a training dataset comprising, for each of a plurality of individuals having a disease, (1) genetic information from the individual generated at first time point and (2) treatment re...