US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Feb. 18 for "Molecular programming tools" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,795, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Molecular programming tools" was invented by Jocelyn Yoshiko Kishi (Cambridge, Mass.), Thomas E. Schaus (Cambridge, Mass.), Peng Yin (Cambridge, Mass.), Feng Xuan (Cambridge, Mass.), Nikhil Gopalkrishnan (Cambridge, Mass.) and Sungwook Woo (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides, in some aspects, nucleic acid-based molecular tools that enable the recording of molecular structure and soluble signals as well as the programmed assembly of molecular structures."

The patent was filed on Feb. 3, 20...