US Patent Issued to ILLUMINA on July 29 for "Sequence-graph based tool for determining variation in short tandem repeat regions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,422, issued on July 29, was assigned to ILLUMINA INC. (San Diego).

"Sequence-graph based tool for determining variation in short tandem repeat regions" was invented by Egor Dolzhenko (San Diego) and Michael A. Eberle (Oceanside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments concern methods, apparatus, systems and computer program products for genotyping repeat sequences such as medically significant short tandem repeats (STRs). The methods involve aligning reads to a repeat sequence represented by a sequence graph, and using the aligned reads to genotype the repeat sequence. The sequence graph is a directed graph ea...