US Patent Issued to Shionogi & Co. on July 8 for "Production method for bifurcated lipid-linked oligonucleotide, and intermediate" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,804, issued on July 8, was assigned to Shionogi & Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Production method for bifurcated lipid-linked oligonucleotide, and intermediate" was invented by Tetsuya Tanino (Osaka, Japan), Mitsuaki Sekiguchi (Hyogo, Japan), Shunsuke Ochi (Hyogo, Japan) and Nobuaki Fukui (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are production methods capable of controlling quality of a bifurcated lipid-linked oligonucleotide, and intermediates which is useful for the production method, has good stability, and is easy to manage and analyze. Specifically, it is a method for producing a bifurcated lipid-linked oligonucleotide i...