US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "Reverse concatenation of error-correcting codes in DNA data storage" (Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,937, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reverse concatenation of error-correcting codes in DNA data storage" was invented by Sergey Yekhanin (Redmond, Wash.), Sivakanth Gopi (Redmond, Wash.), Henry Pfister (Durham, N.C.) and Karin Strauss (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Redundancy information can be included in nucleotide symbol strings encoding underlying data. To avoid propagation of errors during the decoding process, during encoding, a constrained encoding can be performed before the redundancy information is computed. The redundancy information can be an outer encod...