US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 17 for "Biological sequence compression using sequence alignment" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,047, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Biological sequence compression using sequence alignment" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheba, Israel), Ilan Buyum (Kfar-Aza, Ill.) and Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compressing files is disclosed. An DNA sequence to be compressed is first aligned. Aligning the DNA sequence includes splitting the DNA sequences into smaller sequences or portions that can be aligned. After the DNA sequence is spilt one or more time and aligned, a compression matrix is generated. Each row of the compression matrix corresponds to part...