US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 5 for "Codes to detect insertion and deletion errors in a dense storage medium" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,338, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Codes to detect insertion and deletion errors in a dense storage medium" was invented by Majid Anaraki Nemati (San Diego), Anthony Dwayne Weathers (San Diego) and Pablo Alejandro Ziperovich (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems and methods for detecting multiple insertion and deletion errors in the presence of substitution errors in a signal (such as a sequenced DNA string). A convolutional code that includes two or more component convolutional codes is used for encoding. Each of the two or more component ...