US Patent Issued to RTX BBN Technologies on April 14 for "Fast-NA for threat detection in high-throughput sequencing" (Iowa, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,154, issued on April 14, was assigned to RTX BBN Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Fast-NA for threat detection in high-throughput sequencing" was invented by Jacob Stuart Michael Beal (Iowa City, Iowa), Thomas Cushing Mitchell (Boston) and Daniel Wyschogrod (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example, a method of analyzing an output of a sequencer is provided comprising identifying genetic targets, obtaining target signature snippets responsive thereto, each target signature snippet derived from a genetic sequence of the genetic targets, receiving portions of a test sequence output by a sequencer sequ...