US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Aug. 26 for "Whole pool amplification and in-sequencer random-access of data encoded by polynucleotides" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,738, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Whole pool amplification and in-sequencer random-access of data encoded by polynucleotides" was invented by Karin Strauss (Seattle) and Yuan-Jyue Chen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes an efficient method to copy all polynucleotides encoding digital data of digital files in a polynucleotide storage container while maintaining random access capabilities over a collection of files or data items in the container. The disclosure further describes a process whereby random-access and sequencing of the polynucleotide...