US Patent Issued to UNM Rainforest Innovations, The Trustees of Columbia Unversity in the city of New York on Jan. 20 for "Heterochiral translators and molecular circuits" (New Mexico, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,103, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to UNM Rainforest Innovations (Albuquerque, N.M.) and The Trustees of Columbia Unversity in the city of New York (New York).

"Heterochiral translators and molecular circuits" was invented by Tracy L. Mallette (Albuquerque, N.M.), Matthew R. Lakin (Albuquerque, N.M.), Darko Stefanovic (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Milan N. Stojanovic (Ridgewood, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heterochiral strand displacement molecular circuit generally includes an input oligonucleotide, a first translator, a second translator, and an output oligonucleotide. The first translator generally includes a domain that bin...