ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,101, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CATALOG TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Boston).

"Printer-finisher system for data storage in DNA" was invented by Nathaniel Roquet (Boston), Hyunjun Park (Boston), Swapnil P. Bhatia (Boston), Mike Hazell (Boston), Richard Day (Boston), Richard Hammond (Boston), James Brown (Boston), Rodney Richardson (Boston), Thomas Redman (Boston) and Devin Leake (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for storing digital information by assembling an identifier nucleic acid molecule from at least a first component nucleic acid molecule and a second component nucleic acid molecule. T...