US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 28 for "Trace reconstruction of polymer sequences using quality scores" (Washington, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,951, issued on July 28, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Trace reconstruction of polymer sequences using quality scores" was invented by Sergey Yekhanin (Redmond, Wash.) and Amirbehshad Shahrasbi (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Polymeric molecules such as deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) provide a storage medium for digital data that has advantages over conventional storage media. Accessing digital data stored in polymers includes decoding the output of sequencers which detect the physical order of monomer subunits in the polymers. This output includes errors which are corrected through t...