US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Sept. 9 for "Merging alignment and sorting to optimize computer operations for gene sequencing pipeline" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,641, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Merging alignment and sorting to optimize computer operations for gene sequencing pipeline" 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 performs alignment of a short read (SR) against a reference sequence. The reference sequence comprises a first sequence of base pairs (bps). The SR comprises a second sequence of bps. The processing unit determines whether the SR is aligned. If the SR is not aligned, the processing unit receives the ...