US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on July 8 for "DNA storage error correction code architecture for optimized decoding" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,468, issued on July 8, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"DNA storage error correction code architecture for optimized decoding" was invented by Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel), Ran Zamir (Ramat Gan, Israel) and David Avraham (Even Yehuda, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DNA-based storage system implements a sub-code architecture for error correction capability (ECC) purposes. The sub-code architecture enables a long DNA strand to be divided into two or more short DNA strands. Each short DNA strand has its own unique parity information. Additionally, each short DNA strand is separately de...