ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,831, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Artificial intelligence-based quality scoring" was invented by Kishore Jaganathan (San Francisco), John Randall Gobbel (Brisbane, Calif.) and Amirali Kia (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed assigns quality scores to bases called by a neural network-based base caller by (i) quantizing classification scores of predicted base calls produced by the neural network-based base caller in response to processing training data during training, (ii) selecting a set of quantized classification scores, (iii) for each quantized classification sc...