Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of University of Arizona and Whitespace Enterprise Assigned Patent
Biological information pattern storage and readout
By Francis Pelletier | February 14, 2022 at 2:00 pmArizona Board of Regents on Behalf of The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, and Whitespace Enterprise Corporation, Tempe, AZ, has been assigned a patent (11,221,966) developed by Zenhausern, Frederic, Phoenix, AZ, and Hurth, Cedric, Castelldefels, Spain, for “method and system for biological information pattern storage and readout.“
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Provided herein are biological information pattern (BIP) arrays and related methods for reading out information stored in a biological medium. In this manner, encoded digital information in biomolecular medium can be used as a high data density storage medium that may be read-out and accessed in a label-free manner.”
The patent application was filed on June 4, 2019 (16/431,329).