US Patent Issued to Illumina on May 26 for "Splicing site classification using neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,235, issued on May 26, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Splicing site classification using neural networks" was invented by Kishore Jaganathan (San Francisco), Kai-how Farh (San Mateo, Calif.), Jeremy Francis McRae (Hayward, Calif.) and Sofia Kyriazopoulou Panagiotopoulou (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to splice site prediction and aberrant splicing detection. In particular, it relates to a splice site predictor that includes a convolutional neural network trained on training examples of donor splice sites, acceptor splice sites, and non-splicing sites. An input stage o...