ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,815, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GUARDANT HEALTH INC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Network bandwidth architecture for bioinformatics system" was invented by Varsha Kohirkar (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Mikhail Zhagrov (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network bandwidth architecture controls data transfers between a life science service provider, a local network data repository, and a remote data repository. The data transfers may include patient data and patient metadata that are analyzed by a bioinformatics system of the life science service provider."

The patent was filed on June 2, 2025, under Application No. 19/225,768....