US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Aug. 25 for "Methods and systems for creating and storing graph reference genomes" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,907, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Methods and systems for creating and storing graph reference genomes" was invented by Yee Him Cheung (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (100) for representing a graph genome data structure in a memory of a computer system, the method comprising: receiving (120) a definition of a graph reference genome, comprising: (i) a plurality of graph genome edges, each specifying a sequence of characters, and (ii) a plurality of links representing connections between the plurality of graph genome edges; generati...