US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Oct. 27 for "On-chip nanoscale storage system using chimeric DNA" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,852, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"On-chip nanoscale storage system using chimeric DNA" was invented by Olgica Milenkovic (Urbana, Ill.), Nagendra Athreya (Urbana, Ill.), Apratim Khandelwal (Champaign, Ill.), Jean-Pierre Leburton (Urbana, Ill.), Xiuling Li (Champaign, Ill.), Charles Schroeder (Champaign, Ill.), Seyedkasra Tabatabaei (Urbana, Ill.) and Bo Li (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods that can provide portable, real-time accessible DNA memories. An example DNA-based data storage system incl...