ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,711, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Martin Williams (Beunos Aires, Argentina) and SYSTE.BIO INC. (Chestnut Hill, Mass.).

"System and process for in vivo manufacturing nanostructure-ended double-stranded covalently-closed linear DNA, the resulting molecules and their uses" was invented by Martin Williams (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel biological in vivo manufacturing system and a process for generating nanostructure-ended double-stranded covalently-closed linear DNA molecules. These DNA molecules possess the ability to merge the information-storage and function-enco...