US Patent Issued to Nant Holdings IP on Nov. 3 for "Sample tracking via sample tracking chains, systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,880, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Sample tracking via sample tracking chains, systems and methods" was invented by Nicholas James Witchey (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for tracking samples via sample tracking chains are presented. Sample tracking chains represent digital data structures instantiated according to intrinsic properties of a sample. Each link in the chain is a block of data representing an observed intrinsic state of the sample and is linked at least to a previous block representing a previous...