US Patent Issued to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE on Oct. 14 for "Use of DNA origami nanostructures for molecular information based data storage systems" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,996, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE (Columbus, Ohio).

"Use of DNA origami nanostructures for molecular information based data storage systems" was invented by Cherry Gupta (Columbus, Ohio), Craig M. Bartling (Powell, Ohio), Rachel R. Spurbeck (Columbus, Ohio), Anthony D. Duong (Columbus, Ohio), James Ha (Columbus, Ohio), Miguel D. Pedrozo (Columbus, Ohio) and Nickolas R. Andrioff (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to compositions and methods that use the principles of DNA origami to package and archive data stored in multiple indexed DNA oligonucleotides. ...