ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,528, issued on July 1, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"System and method for storing and transporting diverse genomic data" was invented by Yee Him Cheung (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (100) for packaging genomic data within a file structure, the method comprising: (i) receiving (110) a genomic dataset comprising genomic data; (ii) extracting (120) a plurality of attributes from the genomic dataset, wherein each of the plurality of attributes is defined within an attribute information table of the data structure; (iii) breaking (130) each attribute into a plurality of chunks of a p...