US Patent Issued to Illumina on Nov. 3 for "Species proximity-aware evolutionary conservation profiles" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,873, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Species proximity-aware evolutionary conservation profiles" was invented by Tobias Hamp (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Kai-How Farh (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed relates to generating species-differentiable evolutionary profiles using a weighting logic. In particular, the technology disclosed relates to determining a weighted summary statistic for a given residue category at a given position in a multiple sequence alignment based on one or more weights of one or more sequences in the multiple sequence alignment that have ...