US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Multiplex similarity search in DNA data storage" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,567, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multiplex similarity search in DNA data storage" was invented by Yuan-Jyue Chen (Taipei, Taiwan) and Karin Strauss (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiplex similarity search can be performed in a DNA data storage context. The described technologies can support a plurality of different DNA data storage queries in a single query run. A linking strand can be used to connect a query to its matching data element. After the query finds a matching data element, a result strand can be sequenced to the reveal the matching data element as w...