ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,185, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NANJING GENSCRIPT BIOTECH Co. LTD. (Nanjing, China).
"DNA-based data storage and retrieval" was invented by Long Fan (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to DNA-based data storage. An exemplary method for storing input data on nucleic acid comprises: converting the input data into a set of nucleotide sequences and synthesizing a set of nucleic acids comprising the set of nucleotide sequences. The converting comprises a data processing step comprising converting the input data into a binary string, and a nucleotide encoding step comprising conve...