US Patent Issued to BIOGEN MA, AJINOMOTO on Aug. 5 for "Convergent liquid phase syntheses of oligonucleotides" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,276, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to BIOGEN MA INC. (Cambridge, Mass.) and AJINOMOTO Co. INC (Tokyo).

"Convergent liquid phase syntheses of oligonucleotides" was invented by Xianglin Shi (Cambridge, Mass.), William F. Kiesman (Cambridge, Mass.), Firoz Antia (Cambridge, Mass.), Yannick Fillon (Cambridge, Mass.), Xuan Zhou (Cambridge, Mass.), Wuming Yan (Cambridge, Mass.), Hong Jiang (Cambridge, Mass.), Hien Nguyen (Cambridge, Mass.), Robert S. Gronke (Cambridge, Mass.), Taisuke Ichimaru (Kawasaki, Japan), Takuya Hamagaki (Kawasaki, Japan) and Daisuke Takahashi (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure des...