ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,910, issued on March 17, was assigned to NantOmics LLC Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Synthetic genomic variant-based secure transaction devices, systems and methods" was invented by Patrick Soon-Shiong (Los Angeles), Stephen Benz (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Rahul Chaturvedi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various devices, systems, structures and methods are disclosed related to securely authorizing a transaction by synchronizing digital genomic data with associated synthetic genomic variants. An embodiment of the present invention utilizes digital genomic data associated with an entity, such as a person, who ma...