ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,639, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NantOmics LLC (Culver City, Calif.), NantBio Inc. (Culver City, Calif.) and Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Method of characterizing a tumor based on an immune gene expression signature in regulatory T cell (Treg)-enriched tumor samples" was invented by Kevin B. Givechian (Irvine, Calif.), Kamil A. Wnuk (Playa Vista, Calif.), Chad Garner (Culver City, Calif.), Stephen Charles Benz (Culver City, Calif.), Hermes J. Garban (Culver City, Calif.), Shahrooz Rabizadeh (Agoura Hills, Calif.), Kayvan Niazi (Culver City, Calif.) and Patrick Soon-Shiong (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trade...