US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Aug. 12 for "Memory allocation to optimize computer operations of seeding for burrows wheeler alignment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,818, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Memory allocation to optimize computer operations of seeding for burrows wheeler alignment" was invented by Meysam Roodi (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Zahra Lak (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with embodiments, a processing unit receives a count table and an occurrence table for a reference sequence generated using a Burrows Wheeler Transform (BWT) algorithm. The reference sequence comprises a sequence of base pairs (bps). The processing unit stores a first part of the occurrence table in a first type of memory. The size of t...