US Patent Issued to Nitto Denko Avecia on March 4 for "Process and apparatus for sequential synthesis of biological polymers" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,950, issued on March 4, was assigned to Nitto Denko Avecia Inc. (Milford, Mass.).

"Process and apparatus for sequential synthesis of biological polymers" was invented by Karsten Keller (Mendon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for nucleic acid synthesis. The method employs a device including at least one deprotection unit to carry out a step of deprotection, at least one coupling unit to carry out a step of coupling, at least one oxidation/thiolation unit to carry out a step of oxidation or thiolation, at least one capping unit to carry out a step of capping, and at least one washing unit to carry out a ste...