ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,348, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Methods and systems for determining drug resistance using a precedence graph" was invented by Filippo Utro (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Laxmi Parida (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.), Chaya Levovitz (New York) and Kahn Rhrissorrakrai (Woodside, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed which includes receiving biological sample information from one or more subjects at a first time period. The method further includes receiving biological sample information from the one or more subjects at a second time period. The method fu...