US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Nested error correction codes for DNA data storage" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,202, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Nested error correction codes for 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 nested error correction codes for DNA data storage are described. A data unit may be encoded in a set of oligos. Using an error correction code, such as an LDPC code, a codeword may be determined for the data unit that is ...