ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,782, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Flexible seed extension for hash table genomic mapping" was invented by Michael Ruehle (Fort Worth, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs for generating and using a hash table configured to improve mapping of reads are disclosed that include obtaining a first seed of K nucleotides from a reference sequence, generating a seed extension tree having a nodes, wherein each node of the nodes corresponds to (i) an extended seed that is an extension of the first seed and has a nucleotide length of K* and (ii) one ...