US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on March 24 for "Hardware accelerated K-mer graph generation" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,661, issued on March 24, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Hardware accelerated K-mer graph generation" was invented by Michael Ruehle (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for hardware-accelerated generation of a K-mer graph using a programmable logic device. In one aspect, a method includes actions of obtaining a first set of nucleic acid sequences, generating a K-mer graph using the obtained first set of nucleic acid sequences and using a plurality of non-pipelined hardware logic units of a programmable logic device, and periodically updating, with a control machine, graph des...