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US 12,580,056 · App. 18/820,440 · Granted Mar 17, 2026

Production and delivery tracking and sample verification of patient-specific therapeutics

Inventors: Kayvan Niazi (Agoura Hills, CA); Nicholas James Witchey (Laguna Hills, CA)
Assignee: NantCell, Inc.
G16H10/40G01N33/58G06F16/2379G06Q50/04G16H20/10G06Q2220/00
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Patent No.
US 12,580,056
App. No.
18/820,440
Granted
Mar 17, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems and methods for tracking biological samples are presented. Intrinsic and extrinsic biological sample data and/or intrinsic and extrinsic patient data may be used to label a biological sample obtained at a point-of-care facility, which may be sent to a processing facility, wherein the labeled biological sample undergoes analysis and/or processing into a labeled therapeutic. The labeled therapeutic is delivered back to the point-of-care facility, wherein the labeled therapeutic is tested for the presence of the additives prior to administration to a patient. Multi-factor validation is performed, including validating the identity of the patient to a container, validating the identity of the labeled biological sample/therapeutic to the container, and thus, validating the identity of the labeled therapeutic to the patient. The entire life cycle of a biological sample used to generate a personalized therapeutic is validated, and ensures that mix-ups or errors in administration are reduced or eliminated.

Claims (46)

1 . A method of tracking a labeled biological sample through a manufacturing process, the method comprising:

receiving the labeled biological sample at a manufacturing facility, wherein the biological sample is labeled with one or more first additives by inserting the one or more first additives into a container comprising the biological sample, wherein the one or more first additives uniquely label the biological sample among a population of biological samples, and wherein the one or more first additives include at least one of a primer, a monoclonal antibody, a rare earth metal, an isotope, or an autologous mitochondria;

validating the labeled biological sample by detecting a presence of the one or more first additives and comparing the detected one or more first additives to a listing of additives provided in first identifying data corresponding to the labeled biological sample;

generating an initial block of a sample tracking chain using a sample tracking engine, wherein the initial block comprises the first identifying data;

storing the initial block as part of the sample tracking chain in a sample database, wherein the sample tracking chain is indexed and thereby searchable for the first identifying data and the one or more first additives;

for each manufacturing step of a manufacturing process for generating a labeled therapeutic:

accessing the sample tracking chain from the sample database;

retrieving a previous sample state object from the sample tracking chain;

generating a current state of the labeled therapeutic, wherein the current state includes manufacturing data unique to a corresponding manufacturing step for generating the labeled therapeutic;

instantiating a current sample state object in memory as a function of the current state and the previous sample state object;

linking the current sample state object to the previous sample state object in the sample tracking chain; and

updating the sample tracking chain in the sample database with the current sample state object; and

subsequent to completion of all manufacturing steps of the manufacturing process, sending the labeled therapeutic comprising one or more second additives to a point of care for administration to a patient; and

performing an assay on the labeled therapeutic at the point of care, thereby validating the labeled therapeutic for administration to the patient, by detecting the presence of the one or more second additives via an assay which uniquely labels the therapeutic among a population of therapeutics, wherein the validation is added to the sample tracking chain, wherein the validation includes validating a timestamp of a state block of a distributed digital ledger associated with second identifying digital data, based on an external public ledger, to confirm the state block associated with the second identifying digital data has not been modified or tampered with, and the sample tracking chain is indexed and thereby searchable for the second identifying digital data and the one or more second additives.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the sample tracking chain comprises extrinsic and intrinsic patient data.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the sample tracking chain comprises a linked chain of sample state objects.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the previous sample state object comprises a previous state hash digest.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the current sample state object comprises a hash digest generated based on the current state and a previous state hash digest.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a different additive is added at each step of the manufacturing process.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a different additive is added to each step of a subset of steps of the manufacturing process.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a notification is sent to a user when the labeled biological sample fails validation.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more first additives include at least one of antigens or dyes.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the presence of one or more first additives are detected using mass spectrometry.

11 . A system for tracking a labeled biological sample through a manufacturing process, the system comprising at least one processor configured to:

receive the labeled biological sample at a manufacturing facility, wherein the biological sample is labeled with one or more first additives by inserting the one or more first additives into a container comprising the biological sample, wherein the one or more first additives uniquely label the biological sample among a population of biological samples, and wherein the one or more first additives include at least one of a primer, a monoclonal antibody, a rare earth metal, an isotope, or an autologous mitochondria;

validate the labeled biological sample by detecting a presence of the one or more first additives and comparing the detected one or more first additives to a listing of additives provided in first identifying data corresponding to the labeled biological sample;

generate an initial block of a sample tracking chain using a sample tracking engine, wherein the initial block comprises the first identifying data;

store the initial block as part of the sample tracking chain in a sample database, wherein the sample tracking chain is indexed and thereby searchable for the first identifying data and the one or more first additives;

for each manufacturing step of a manufacturing process for generating a labeled therapeutic:

access the sample tracking chain from the sample database;

retrieve a previous sample state object from the sample tracking chain;

generate a current state of the labeled therapeutic, wherein the current state includes manufacturing data unique to a corresponding manufacturing step for generating the labeled therapeutic;

instantiate a current sample state object in memory as a function of the current state and the previous sample state object;

link the current sample state object to the previous sample state object in the sample tracking chain; and

update the sample tracking chain in the sample database with the current sample state object;

subsequent to completion of all manufacturing steps of the manufacturing process, send the labeled therapeutic comprising one or more second additives to a point of care for administration to a patient; and

performing an assay on the labeled therapeutic at the point of care, thereby validating the labeled therapeutic for administration to the patient, by detecting the presence of the one or more second additives via an assay which uniquely labels the therapeutic among a population of therapeutics, wherein the validation is added to the sample tracking chain, wherein the validation includes validating a timestamp of a state block of a distributed digital ledger associated with second identifying digital data, based on an external public ledger, to confirm the state block associated with the second identifying digital data has not been modified or tampered with, and the sample tracking chain is indexed and thereby searchable for the second identifying digital data and the one or more second additives.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the sample tracking chain comprises extrinsic and intrinsic patient data.

13 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the sample tracking chain comprises a linked chain of sample state objects.

14 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the previous sample state object comprises a previous state hash digest.

15 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the current sample state object comprises a hash digest generated based on the current state and a previous state hash digest.

16 . The system of claim 11 , wherein a different additive is added at each step of the manufacturing process.

17 . The system of claim 11 , wherein a different additive is added to each step of a subset of steps of the manufacturing process.

18 . The system of claim 11 , wherein a notification is sent to a user when the labeled biological sample fails validation.

19 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the one or more first additives include at least one of antigens or dyes.

20 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the presence of one or more first additives are detected using mass spectrometry.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 30, 2024
From: NIAZI, KAYVAN
To: NANTBIO, INC.
Reel/Frame 068449/0083 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 30, 2024
From: NANTBIO, INC.
To: NANTCELL, INC.
Reel/Frame 068449/0126 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 30, 2024
From: NANTWORKS, LLC
To: NANTCELL, INC.
Reel/Frame 068449/0170 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 30, 2024
From: WITCHEY, NICHOLAS J.
To: NANTWORKS, LLC
Reel/Frame 068820/0703 →
Continuity (4)
Division 18523564 · Nov 29, 2023
Continuation 16561773 · Sep 5, 2019
Provisional Application 62745746 · Oct 15, 2018
Related Publication 20240420811A1 · Dec 19, 2024
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