Nucleic acid security and authentication
AssigneeCatalog Technologies, Inc.
InventorsNathaniel Roquet, Hyunjun Park, Swapnil P. Bhatia, Devin Leake
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Abstract
Methods and systems for security, authentication, tagging, and tracking using nucleic acid (e.g., deoxyribonucleic acid) molecules encoding information. Unique nucleic acid molecules are efficiently produced from pre-fabricated fragments to quickly produce libraries of nucleic acid molecules encoding encrypted or randomized information. Physical objects or artifacts can be tagged with libraries to authenticate the objects, grant access to secured assets or locations, or track the objects or entities. Chemical methods can be applied to verify authenticity, decrypt, or decode information stored in the libraries.
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A method for preparing nucleic acid molecules for use in security and authentication of an artifact, the method comprising:
- obtaining a library of nucleic acid molecules encoding a security token, wherein the security token comprises a string of information which uniquely identifies the artifact;
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- applying a chemical operation to the library encoding the security token to obtain a hashed library of nucleic acid molecules encoding a hashed token.
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