ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,782, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems and temporal alignment methods for evaluation of gestational age and time to delivery" was invented by Liang Liang (Whitefish Bay, Wis.), Rajanala Samyak (Stanford, Calif.), Robert Tibshirani (Palo Alto, Calif.), Trevor Hastie (Stanford, Calif.) and Michael P. Snyder (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods to compute gestational age and time to delivery utilizing temporal alignment methods and applications thereof are described. Generally, systems utilize analyte measurements collected...