US Patent Issued to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES on Sept. 16 for "Method and system for mapping read sequences using a pangenome reference" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,820, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for mapping read sequences using a pangenome reference" was invented by Kavya Naga Sai Vaddadi (Hyderabad, India), Naveen Sivadasan (Hyderabad, India) and Rajgopal Srinivasan (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a demand for low-cost efficient robust method for mapping read sequences with genome variation graph in genomic study. This disclosure herein relates to a method and system for mapping read sequences with genome variation graph by constructing a subgraph using a novel combination of graph embedding...