US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA on July 15 for "Method for organizing individual molecules on a patterned substrate and structures assembled thereby" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,110, issued on July 15, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.) and UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver, Canada).

"Method for organizing individual molecules on a patterned substrate and structures assembled thereby" was invented by Ashwin Gopinath (Cambridge, Mass.), Christopher Thachuk (Seattle), David G. Kirkpatrick (Vancouver, Canada) and Paul W. Rothemund (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment of the present invention, a structure includes: a substrate having a patterned surface of one or more binding sites; and a molecular shape made by a polynucleotide p...