Tata Consultancy Services Assigned Patent

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Mumbai, India, has been assigned a patent (11,101,018) developed by Mande, Sharmila S., Pune, India, Bose, Tungadri, Dutta, Anirban, Haque, Mohammed Monzoorul, and Gandhi, Hemang, Maharashtra, India, for “encoding and decoding of RNA data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Systems and methods to enable representation of sequence as well as structural information of an RNA molecule in the form of a single encoded string are described. The encoding steps are based on identifying one or more contiguous stretches of ribonucleotide bases having similar structural attributes and base-pairing patterns. In the encoded string, each of the identified contiguous structure stretches is represented by a single character that indicates the corresponding structural attribute. Appending these structural characters to the corresponding contiguous ribonucleotide character stretches, and subsequently eliminating redundant ribonucleotide characters based on standard base-pairing rules results in generating the final encoded string. Such concomitant representation of sequence and structural information of a given RNA molecule in a single encoded string enables efficient storage and easy dissemination of RNA data.”

The patent application was filed on December 1, 2014 (14/557,153).