US Patent Issued to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE on July 21 for "Systems and methods using DNA sequence strings as a common data format for forensic DNA typing applications" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,908, issued on July 21, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Columbus, Ohio).

"Systems and methods using DNA sequence strings as a common data format for forensic DNA typing applications" was invented by Mark R. Wilson (Fredericksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates, generally, to nucleotide sequence data and, more particularly, to computer files and methods supporting forensic DNA analysis. In one illustrative embodiment, a method may comprise identifying a locus corresponding to each item of short tandem repeat (STR) profiling data stored in an existing computer file, wherein the STR profi...