ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,538, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Roche Sequencing Solutions Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Adaptive compression and modification of nanopore measurement data" was invented by Santiago Fernandez-Gomez (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hui Tian (Cupertino, Calif.), J. William Maney Jr. (Emerald Hills, Calif.) and Jayalakshmi Rajaraman (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of nanopore cells. Data corresponding to nanopore states of the plurality of nanopore cells is received. The data is analyzed to determine a compressed output size of the data given at least one compression technique. It is determined ...