US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on May 5 for "Merging duplicate marking to optimize computer operations for gene sequencing pipeline" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,455, issued on May 5, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Merging duplicate marking to optimize computer operations for gene sequencing pipeline" was invented by Meysam Roodi (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Zahra Lak (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with embodiments, a processing unit performs alignment of a short read (SR) against a reference genome sequence. The processing unit determines whether the SR is aligned. If the SR is not aligned, the processing unit receives the next SR and processes the next SR by repeating. If the SR is aligned, in response to the determination that the SR i...