US Patent Issued to DNA Script on Sept. 23 for "Massively parallel enzymatic synthesis of nucleic acid strands" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,628, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DNA Script (Le Kremlin-Bicetre, France).

"Massively parallel enzymatic synthesis of nucleic acid strands" was invented by Adrian Horgan (Le Kremlin-Bicetre, France), Xavier Godron (Le Kremlin-Bicetre, France), Thomas Ybert (Paris) and Robert Nicol (Le Kremlin-Bicetre, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to methods for massively parallel template-free enzymatic synthesis of a plurality of different polynucleotides of predetermined sequences. In one aspect, methods of the invention employ large scale arrays of reaction sites each associated with at least one working ...