ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,271, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).
"System and methods for adaptive bandwidth-efficient encoding of genomic data" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.), Brian Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.) and Erin Johnston (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for adaptive bandwidth-efficient data encoding comprising: a sequence analyzer configured to analyze a received sequence dataset, maintain a count of unique characters, and identify positions where the unique character count increases by a power of two; an adaptive sourceblock optimizer that determines an...