ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,420, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Guardant Health Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Database for therapeutic interventions" was invented by Helmy Eltoukhy (Atherton, Calif.), AmirAli Talasaz (Atherton, Calif.), Bahram Ghaffarzadeh Kermani (Los Altos, Calif.) and Nnamdi Ihuegbu (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides, among other things, methods for compiling and using a database for identifying one or more therapeutic interventions for a cancer and/or the efficacy of a therapeutic intervention for subjects with a tumor genomic profile. The database may include, for each of a plurality of subjects having ...