US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Chemical on July 29 for "Inorganic porous carrier and method for producing nucleic acids using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,451, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Japan).

"Inorganic porous carrier and method for producing nucleic acids using same" was invented by Kanako Yamazaki (Kurashiki, Japan), Masaki Kitahara (Chuo-ku, Japan), Takashi Hara (Osaka, Japan) and Takeshi Yoshioka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inorganic porous carrier having pore distribution where a pore diameter is 0.04 micro metre or more, and including a linker of formula (1) [where a bond * represents a bond to an oxygen atom of a silanol group in an inorganic porous substance. R1 and R2 represent each independently an alkyl grou...