US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 21 for "Trace reconstruction from reads with indeterminant errors" (New Jersey, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,907, issued on July 21, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Trace reconstruction from reads with indeterminant errors" was invented by Sergey Mikhailovich Yekhanin (Redmond, Wash.) and Miklos Zoltan Racz (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polynucleotide sequencing generates multiple reads of a polynucleotide molecule. Many or all of the reads contain errors. Trace reconstruction takes multiple reads generated by a polynucleotide sequencer and uses those multiple reads to reconstruct accurately the nucleotide sequence of the polynucleotide molecule. Some reads may contain errors that cann...