US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 9 for "Silica encapsulated DNA on magnetic nanoparticles" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,423, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Silica encapsulated DNA on magnetic nanoparticles" was invented by Karin Strauss (Seattle), Weida Chen (Zurich, Switzerland), Robert Grass (Zurich, Switzerland), Alexander Xavier Christof Kohll (Zurich, Switzerland) and Bichlien Hoang Nguyen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage medium is disclosed comprising a substrate covered with alternating layers of a polycationic molecule and artificially synthesized DNA molecules encoding digital information. The magnetic substrate may be a metallic nanoparticle formed from a metal ...