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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2021
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);
George M. Whitesides, Newton, MA (US);
Brian J. Cafferty, Cambridge, MA (US);
Alexei S. Ten, Evanston, IL (US);
Michael J. Fink, Cambridge, MA (US);
Daniel J. Preston, Cambridge, MA (US);
Milan M. Mrksich, Hinsdale, IL (US);
Amit A. Nagarkar, Cambridge, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);
Abstract
A machine-readable medium and methods of reading and writing same are disclosed. The machine-readable medium comprises a substrate having an array of addressable locations thereon, each addressable location adapted to be physically associated with a collection of non-polymeric molecules. The molecules in each collection are selected from a set of unambiguously identifiable molecules, each molecule uniquely associated with a predetermined position in a numerical value, wherein the presence of the molecule in the collection indicates a predetermined digit at the associated position and the absence of said molecule in the collection indicates a zero at said associated position.