Massachusetts Institute of Technology Assigned Patent

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, has been assigned a patent (11905532) developed by Shepherd; Tyson Robert, Louisville, CO, for “compositions and methods for molecular memory storage and retrieval.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Compositions and methods for the storage, organization, access, and retrieval of information encoded by sequence controlled polymers such as data storage nucleic acids are provided. In some embodiments, organization, storage, and/or selective retrieval of the data is facilitated by hybridization of barcode sequence of the sequence controlled polymer to the reverse complementary sequence of an oligonucleotide. The plurality of oligonucleotides can be arrayed using a known organization scheme, and selectively capture and localize the corresponding sequence controlled polymer. In some embodiments, the compositions and methods utilize recombinant bacteriophage, typically featuring a minigenome having a bacteriophage origin of replication and packaging signal separated from a data storage sequence by barcodes.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-06-25 (16/912458).