US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Sept. 29 for "Methods and systems for improved K-mer storage and retrieval" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,557, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for improved K-mer storage and retrieval" was invented by HoJoon Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hanlee P. Ji (Stanford, Calif.), Tsachy Weissman (Stanford, Calif.) and Dmitri Pavlichin (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of storing and retrieving K-mer data in a data structure are provided. In certain embodiments, the K-mer data is stored as an integer value that defines an address of a slot in the data structure. In many embodiments, each slot in the data str...