ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,626, issued on March 4, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Methods for compression of molecular tagged nucleic acid sequence data" was invented by Cheng-Zong Bai (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compressing molecular tagged sequence data includes: grouping sequence reads associated with a molecular tag sequence to form a family of sequence reads, corresponding vectors of flow space signal measurements and corresponding sequence alignments, calculating an arithmetic mean of the corresponding vectors of flow space signal measurements to form a vector of consensus flow space signal m...