ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,962, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Nano computing device and method of operating nano computing device" was invented by Jwa-Min Nam (Seoul, South Korea), Sungi Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Namjun Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nano computing device includes: a nanoparticle memory including a first molecule bound so as to store a molecular input; a nanoparticle reporter including a second molecule bound so as to generate an output; and a nanoparticle floater including at least two third molecules and fourth molecules so as to be bound to ...