Roswell Biotechnologies Assigned Patent

Roswell Biotechnologies, Inc., San Diego, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,902,939) developed by Merriman, Barry L., Geiser, Tim, and Mola, Paul, San Diego, CA, for “methods and systems for DNA data storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”In various embodiments, an information storage system comprises: a writing device for synthesizing a nucleotide sequence that encodes a set of information, and a reading device for interpreting the nucleotide sequence by decoding the interpreted nucleotide sequence into the set of information, wherein the reading device comprises a molecular electronics sensor, the sensor comprising a pair of spaced apart electrodes and a molecular complex attached to each electrode to form a molecular electronics circuit, wherein the molecular complex comprises a bridge molecule and a probe molecule, and wherein the molecular electronics sensor produces distinguishable signals in a measurable electrical parameter of the molecular electronics sensor, when interpreting the nucleotide sequence.”

The patent application was filed on January 10, 2018 (16/477,106).