ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,545, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Element Biosciences Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions and methods for preparing nucleic acid nanostructures using compaction oligonucleotides" was invented by Sinan Arslan (San Diego), Michael Kim (El Cajon, Calif.), Ramreddy Tippana (San Diego), Chunhong Zhou (San Diego), William Light (Poway, Calif.), Hua Yu (La Jolla, Calif.), Junhua Zhao (San Diego) and Tsung-Li Liu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and related methods, e.g., for preparing immobilized nucleic acid nanostructures using compaction oligonucleotides. In some embodiments, roll...