US Patent Issued to FLAGSHIP PIONEERING INNOVATIONS VII on May 20 for "DNA compositions and related methods" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,526, issued on May 20, was assigned to FLAGSHIP PIONEERING INNOVATIONS VII LLC (Cambridge, Mass.).

"DNA compositions and related methods" was invented by Alexandra Rachael Sneider (Cambridge, Mass.), Jacob Rosenblum Rubens (Cambridge, Mass.), Narahari Subbanna Pujar (Berwyn, Pa.), Molly Krisann Gibson (Medford, Mass.), Benjamin Andrew Portney (Somerville, Mass.), Geoffrey A. Von Maltzahn (Somerville, Mass.) and Camilo Ayala Breton (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides, for example, single stranded, covalently closed DNA that does not form a double stranded structure longer than 100 base pairs. The ssD...