ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,635, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Polynucleotide synthesis method, system and kit" was invented by John Milton (Oxford, Great Britain), Sobia Nayyar (Cambridge, Great Britain), Jan Riedl (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Ryosuke Ogaki (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to new methods for synthesising polynucleotide molecules according to a predefined nucleotide sequence. The invention also relates to methods for the assembly of synthetic polynucleotides following synthesis, as well as systems and kits for performing the synthesis...