ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,208, issued on July 7, was assigned to NantOmics LLC (Culver City, Calif.) and Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Tumor antigenicity processing and presentation" was invented by Andrew Nguyen (Culver City, Calif.), John Zachary Sanborn (Culver City, Calif.), Charles Joseph Vaske (Culver City, Calif.), Shahrooz Rabizadeh (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Kayvan Niazi (Culver City, Calif.), Patrick Soon-Shiong (Culver City, Calif.) and Stephen Charles Benz (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for targeting a tumor antigen for immunotherapy based on HLA allele type and the mutations present in the tumor antigen are...