ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,218, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).
"Multi-pass software-accelerated genomic read mapping engine" was invented by Guillaume Alexandre Pascal Rizk (Rennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for software-accelerated genomic data read mapping are described. In some implementations, software-accelerated genomic data read mapping includes obtaining a first k-mer seed from a genomic data read; generating a genomic signature based on a first k-mer seed; determining a reference sequence location using a hash da...