US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Feb. 18 for "Molecular DNA strand-displacement controllers for directing material expansion" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,624, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Molecular DNA strand-displacement controllers for directing material expansion" was invented by Angelo Cangialosi (Baltimore), ChangKyu Yoon (Timonium, Md.), Joshua Fern (Baltimore), Thao D. Nguyen (Baltimore), David H. Gracias (Baltimore) and Rebecca Schulman (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods including modular material controllers that combine amplification with logic, translation of input signals, and response tuning to directly and precisely program dramatic material size changes. In p...