US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Feb. 17 for "Vesicle based DNA data storage" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,891, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Vesicle based DNA data storage" was invented by James Froberg (Shakopee, Minn.) and Gemma Mendonsa (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microfluidic system includes a hydrophobic fluidic platform and a heater. The platform includes a plurality of electrode cells operably connected to a voltage source and a controller. The heater is configured to fuse first and second vesicles. The first and second vesicles encapsulate first and second DNA precursors, respectively. The fusing combines the first and second DNA precursors. In another embodiment,...