US Patent Issued to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS on July 1 for "Data storage device and method for storing data using an oligonucleotide nanostructure backbone and labels with dyes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,527, issued on July 1, was assigned to LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBH (Wetzlar, Germany).

"Data storage device and method for storing data using an oligonucleotide nanostructure backbone and labels with dyes" was invented by Joachim Bradl (Wetzlar, Germany) and Soeren Alsheimer (Wetzlar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device includes an oligonucleotide nanostructure backbone with a plurality of attachment sites at predetermined positions, a plurality of labels configured to attach to the attachment sites, and at least a first orientation indicator and a second orientation indicator. Each label includes at least one...