US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 7 for "Generating and using a state transition matrix for decoding data in a DNA-based storage system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,812, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating and using a state transition matrix for decoding data in a DNA-based storage system" was invented by Ran Zamir (Ramat Gan, Israel), David Avraham (Even Yehuda, Israel) and Alexander Bazarsky (Holon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state transition matrix for a data storage system indicates a reliability of data that was read or decoded from a data storage channel. The state transition matrix includes a probability of reading each state of a nucleotide base in an identified storage material when that nucleotide base was init...