US Patent Issued to Illumina on March 31 for "Data compression for artificial intelligence-based base calling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,780, issued on March 31, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Data compression for artificial intelligence-based base calling" was invented by Gery Vessere (Oakland, Calif.), Gavin Derek Parnaby (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Anindita Dutta (San Francisco), Dorna Kashefhaghighi (Menlo Park, Calif.), Kishore Jaganathan (San Francisco) and Amirali Kia (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to an artificial intelligence-based method of base calling. In particular, it relates to processing, through a spatial network of a neural network-based base caller, a first window of per-cycle analyte ch...