ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,128, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to GUARDANT HEALTH INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Predictive model for determining changes in molecular state" was invented by Helmy Eltoukhy (Atherton, Calif.) and AmirAli Talasaz (Atherton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for training a predictive model to predict a probability that an initial state of a subject will develop a subsequent state. The method includes receiving sequence reads, grouping the sequencing reads into families, constructing a molecular state vector for subjects, storing ordered pairs of vectors, and training the predictive model based on t...