ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,764, issued on April 29, was assigned to Rajant Health Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"FastQ/FastA compression systems and methods" was invented by Foad Nazari (Malvern, Pa.), Sneh Patel (Malvern, Pa.), Emma K. Murray (Malvern, Pa.) and Giana J. Schena (Malvern, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to analyze and significantly compress FastQ and/or FastA datasets are disclosed. The methodology includes algorithms to compress sequences, quality scores and identifiers of read files. The method relies on reducing the dimension and redundancy in genomic data in a unique and optimal way and in the binary format. The methodology als...