ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,283, issued on July 29, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Error correction systems and methods for DNA storage" was invented by David Avraham (Even Yehuda, Israel), Ran Zamir (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DNA-based storage system includes an error correction system operable to: (a) identify a DNA codeword from a DNA sequencing operation; (b) calculate an initial syndrome weight; (c) determine that the initial syndrome weight is greater than a predetermined threshold; (d) perform an alignment alteration in the information segment by: (i) ...