EMC IP Holding/Dell Assigned Patent

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA, a Dell Technologies, Inc. company, has been assigned a patent (12040055) developed by Vishwakarma; Rahul, Bangalore, India, Liu; Bing, Tianjin, China, Prasad; Parmeshwr, Bangalore, India, and Sethi; Parminder Singh, Punjab, India, for “securely archiving digital data in DNA storage as blocks in a blockchain.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Embodiments for storing digital data in DNA storage by receiving input file data, encoding the input file data into an oligonucleotide sequence to produce sequence data through a transformation of text to binary to Base_3 encoding, organizing the Base_3 sequence data into chunks of a defined chunk size, and storing the chunks in a block of a blockchain. The oligonucleotide sequence may comprise metadata for the input file data that refers to actual data stored in the DNA storage, where the actual data is formed by synthesizing the oligonucleotide sequence in a DNA synthesis process. The chunks may be stored in the blockchain only if the block agrees with a smart contract defined for the oligonucleotide sequence.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-01-22 (17/155552).