ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,967, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).
"Method of storing data in polymer" was invented by Karolien Jans (Tessenderlo, Belgium), Tim Stakenborg (Heverlee, Belgium) and Frank Holsteyns (Leuven, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology generally relates to storing data, and more particularly relates to a method of storing data in a polymer, where the data comprises a sequence of bits. In one aspect, the method comprises receiving a sequence of bits to be stored and providing a group of different homo-bifunctional monomers. Each homo-bifunctional monomer comprises a core structure having...