US Patent Issued to Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California on Sept. 9 for "Dynamic encryption/decryption of genomic information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,960, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Children's Hospital Los Angeles (Los Angeles) and University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"Dynamic encryption/decryption of genomic information" was invented by Xiaowu Gai (La Canada-Flintridge, Calif.), Alex Ryutov (Playa Vista, Calif.) and Tatyana Ryutov (Playa Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are described for dynamically encrypting and/or decrypting a file formed of multiple blocks of ordered data. In one example, a method of dynamically encrypting a file to enable partial decryption of the file includes generating, using a secret key and one or more initializ...