US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on May 13 for "Systems and methods for compressing genetic sequencing data and uses thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,358, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.) and The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for compressing genetic sequencing data and uses thereof" was invented by Shubham Chandak (Menlo Park, Calif.), Kedar Shriram Tatwawadi (Stanford, Calif.), Tsachy Weissman (Stanford, Calif.), Idoia Ochoa (Stanford, Calif.) and Mikel Hernaez (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to compressing genetic sequencing data. In many embodiments, the genetic sequencing d...