ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,579, issued on July 29, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Data processing and storage using quantum and DNA computing" was invented by Nimish Ravindra Deshpande (East Mumbai, India), Prashant Anna Bidkar (Shakarpur, India), Sachin Ahuja (New Delhi) and Vibhuti Gupta (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for data processing and storage using quantum and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) computing. The method includes receiving a request for a search data item. The request includes a first information represented by classical binary bits. The request is converted into a converted request. The c...