US Patent Issued to Illumina on July 8 for "Knowledge distillation and gradient pruning-based compression of artificial intelligence-based base caller" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,008, issued on July 8, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Knowledge distillation and gradient pruning-based compression of artificial intelligence-based base caller" was invented by Anindita Dutta (San Francisco), Gery Vessere (Oakland, Calif.), Dorna Kashefhaghighi (Menlo Park, Calif.), Kishore Jaganathan (San Francisco) and Amirali Kia (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed compresses a larger, teacher base caller into a smaller, student base caller. The student base caller has fewer processing modules and parameters than the teacher base caller. The teacher base caller is trained using h...