ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,396, issued on March 31.
"Digital to biological converter" was invented by J. Craig Venter (La Jolla, Calif.), Daniel Gibson (Carlsbad, Calif.) and John E. Gill (San Marcos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a system for receiving biological sequence information and activating the synthesis of a biological entity. The system has a receiving unit for receiving a signal encoding biological sequence information transmitted from a transmitting unit. The transmitting unit can be present at a remote location from the receiving unit. The system also has an assembly unit connected to the receiving unit, an...