US Patent Issued to Tata Consultancy Services on Feb. 11 for "Method and system for improving amplicon sequencing based taxonomic resolution of microbial communities" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,657, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for improving amplicon sequencing based taxonomic resolution of microbial communities" was invented by Sharmila Shekhar Mande (Pune, India), Anirban Dutta (Pune, India), Nishal Kumar Pinna (Pune, India) and Mohammed Monzoorul Haque (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The taxonomic resolution obtained with conventional sequencing methods like Sanger (longer read lengths) takes a huge amount of time. While, NGS technologies (shorter read lengths) involves a lot of cost in sequencing. In addition to that the accuracy and de...