ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,841, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CATALOG TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for storing and reading nucleic acid-based data with error protection" was invented by Devin Leake (Boston), Swapnil P. Bhatia (Boston), Hyunjun Park (Boston), Nathaniel Roquet (Boston) and Graeme Doran (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems, devices, and methods described herein provide scalable methods for writing data to and reading data from nucleic acid molecules. The present disclosure covers four primary areas of interest: (1) accurately and quickly reading information stored in nucleic acid molecules, (2) partitioning da...