US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on Aug. 5 for "Inorganic porous carrier, and production method for nucleic acid using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,409, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Inorganic porous carrier, and production method for nucleic acid using same" was invented by Takashi Arimura (Tsukuba, Japan), Masaki Kitahara (Chuo-ku, Japan), Takeshi Yoshioka (Osaka, Japan) and Takashi Hara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inorganic porous carrier including a linker of formula (1) and having mode diameter of 0.04 micro metre to 1 micro metre in a pore distribution and the density of voids having an opening area of 0.0025 micro metre2 or more of 12 to 30 voids/micro metre2 [a bond * represents a linkage to the oxygen ...