ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,323, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and system for the transmission of bioinformatics data" was invented by Giorgio Zoia (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Daniele Renzi (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for the transmission of genomic data. The transmission of genomic data is realized by employing the multiplexing of a structured compressed genomic dataset in a stream of genomic data partitioned into randomly accessible access units."

The patent was filed on Oct. 11, 2016, under Application No. 16/341,361.

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