US Patent Issued to Children's Medical Center, President and Fellows of Harvard College on March 18 for "Nucleic acid nanoswitch construction methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,507, issued on March 18, was assigned to Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston) and President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Nucleic acid nanoswitch construction methods" was invented by Darren Yang (Somerville, Mass.), Eric M. Mulhall (Boston), Hongyu Zhao (Boston), Andrew Ward (Boston), Clinton H. Hansen (Brighton, Mass.) and Wesley Philip Wong (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods for generating functionalized nanoswitches, as well as the functionalized nanoswitches themselves, and methods of use thereof."

The patent was filed on Dec. 5, 2017, under Application N...