ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,291, issued on June 24, was assigned to Synthego Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Guide RNA synthesis system and method" was invented by Paul Dabrowski (Atherton, Calif.), Fabian Gerlinghaus (San Francisco), Reed Kelso (San Francisco) and John Andrew Walker II (San Leandro, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides improved automated systems and methods for synthesis of biopolymers including DNA and RNA. The automated systems and methods represent a number of improvements over existing systems for multiplex synthesis of biopolymers in a combinatorial fashion."

The patent was filed on Aug. 10, 2020, under App...