ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,074, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for capturing high-purity nucleotides" was invented by Sung Hoon Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Sik Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hui Ran Yeom (Cheorwon-gun, South Korea), Yong Hee Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Namphil Kim (Hanam-si, South Korea), Hamin Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Wonjun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a technique for synthesizing DNA sequences in high purity at low cost. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and apparatu...