US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of The University of Illinois on April 15 for "Re-writable DNA-based digital storage with random access" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,999, issued on April 15, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of The University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Re-writable DNA-based digital storage with random access" was invented by Olgica Milenkovic (Urbana, Ill.), S. M. Hossein Tabatabaei Yazdi (Urbana, Ill.), Yongbo Yuan (Urbana, Ill.), Jian Ma (Urbana, Ill.) and Huimin Zhao (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a re-writable DNA-based digital storage system with a random access feature. An example embodiment includes reading a physical nucleotide sequence of 2n+L bases to form a digital representation of the physical nucleotide sequence; divid...