US Patent Issued to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 14 for "System and method for adaptive quality driven compression of genomic data using neural networks" (Missouri, Kansas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,564, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for adaptive quality driven compression of genomic data using neural networks" was invented by Zhu Li (Overland Park, Kan.), Paras Maharjan (Kansas City, Mo.) and Brian Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for recovering information lost during genomic data compression employs a quality-driven approach using neural networks. The system evaluates the importance of genomic regions through a quality analysis engine that assigns quality scores, while a rate control engine determines optimal compression rate...