ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,834, issued on June 24, was assigned to Fry Laboratories LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Automated database updating and curation" was invented by Stephen Fry (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Jeremy Ellis (Mesa, Ariz.) and Matthew Shabilla (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for retrieval of information from read-only databases that hold taxonomic-related and sequence-related data. A method may include receiving organism names from a taxonomy database and detecting new organism names. The method may also include retrieving hierarchical data and assigning the new organism names to buckets based on the hierarchical data...