Tsinghua University Assigned Patent

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, has been assigned a patent (11,177,019) developed by Dai, Junbiao, Wu, Qingyu, Yijiati, Naigemaiti, Sun, Kaiwen, Dong, Junkai, and Qin, Yiran, Beijing, China, for a “method for biologically storing and restoring data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present invention relates to a method, device and software product for converting data into a data DNA sequence and restoring the DNA sequence library into raw data, and a storage medium for storing the software product. The method for converting data into a data DNA sequence comprises: dividing data into one or more data conversion units, providing a binary sequence for each data conversion unit, and converting each data conversion unit into a data DNA sequence according to a dataDNA sequence conversion rule, thus acquiring a data DNA sequence library, which makes biological storage of data in vivo possible by constructing a data DNA library.”

The patent application was filed on August 30, 2016 (16/328,745).