US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Preprocessing for correcting insertions and deletions in DNA data storage" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,994, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Preprocessing for correcting insertions and deletions in DNA data storage" was invented by Iouri Oboukhov (Rochester, Minn.), Richard Galbraith (Rochester, Minn.), Niranjay Ravindran (Rochester, Minn.), Jonas Goode (Lake Forest, Calif.) and Weldon M. Hanson (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems and methods for using synchronization marks to correct insertions and deletions for DNA data storage are described. A data unit may be encoded in oligos that include synchronization marks at predetermined intervals along th...