ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,645, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Guardant Health Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Computer architecture for identifying lines of therapy" was invented by Naveen Kumar (Redwood City, Calif.), Jingwen Zhang (Killeen, Texas), Nisha Subramanian (Redwood City, Calif.), Gautam Nayak (Fremont, Calif.), Shunxin Lu (Dublin, Calif.), Jiemin Liao (Redwood City, Calif.) and Junhua Yu (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing machine accesses a pharmacy transaction data set and a medical procedure transaction data set. The computing machine filters, from the pharmacy data set and the medical procedure transaction data set,...