ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,712, issued on July 29, was assigned to University of Oregon (Eugene, Ore.).

"Genetic data compression and methods of use" was invented by Zachary C. Stevenson (Eugene, Ore.), Stephen A. Banse (Eugene, Ore.) and Patrick C. Phillips (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are genetically modified cells and methods of their production, wherein such methods include introducing a nucleic acid molecule including a plurality of index sequences into a cell comprising a synthetic landing pad, wherein each of the plurality of index sequences includes a first portion of a sequence and the synthetic landing pad includes a s...