Nanjing Genscript Biotech Assigned Patent

Nanjing Genscript Biotech Co., Ltd., Nanjing, China, has been assigned a patent (12512185) developed by Fan; Long, Nanjing, China, for “DNA-based data storage and retrieval.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present disclosure generally relates to DNA-based data storage. An exemplary method for storing input data on nucleic acid comprises: converting the input data into a set of nucleotide sequences and synthesizing a set of nucleic acids comprising the set of nucleotide sequences. The converting comprises a data processing step comprising converting the input data into a binary string, and a nucleotide encoding step comprising converting the binary string using a 5-bit transcoding framework to obtain the set of nucleotide sequences.”

The patent application was filed on 2018-07-25 (16/631405).