US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on Dec. 30 for "Glycoside compound, amidite compound, and production method for polynucleotide using said compounds" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,481, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Glycoside compound, amidite compound, and production method for polynucleotide using said compounds" was invented by Ikuya Oshiro (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Saito (Osaka, Japan) and Hideki Ihara (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an amidite compound capable of improving a yield and a purity of a polyoligonucleotide, a glycoside compound as an intermediate thereof, and a production method for a polynucleotide using the amidite compound. The present invention also provides an amidite compound of formula (1) capable of impr...