ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,722, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Enzymatic DNA repair" was invented by Robert N. Grass (Zurich), Alexander Xavier Christof Kohll (Zurich) and Weida Chen (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more enzymes are used to repair damage in synthetic DNA molecules that encode digital information. The enzymes are included in a repair mixture containing one or more of DNA polymerase, DNA ligase, T4 Endonuclease, Endonuclease IV, Endonuclease VIII, and uracil glycosylase. The repair mixture may also contain one or more of a buffering solution, oxidized nicotinamide adenine din...