US Patent Issued to Agilent Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Polymer beads for oligonucleotide synthesis" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,274, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Agilent Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Polymer beads for oligonucleotide synthesis" was invented by Douglas J. Dellinger (Boulder, Colo.), Logan Garner (Boulder, Colo.), John W. Davies (Shrewsbury, Great Britain), Thomas Jacob Cobb (Shrewsbury, Great Britain), Richard Bacon (Church Stretton, Great Britain), David James Neep (Church Stretton, Great Britain) and Matthew Williamson (Church Stretton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resin formed of copolymer beads is disclosed. The copolymer beads have a first repeating motif, a second repeating motif having a substituted...