ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,959, issued on July 15, was assigned to Twist Bioscience Corp. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Highly accurate de novo polynucleotide synthesis" was invented by Bill James Peck (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mary Noe (San Francisco), Stefan Pitsch (Stein am Rhein, Switzerland) and Patrick A. Weiss (Daly City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, compositions, and devices for the manufacturing of high-quality building blocks, such as polynucleotides, are described herein. Processes described herein provide for efficient washing of residual reagents, solvents, or byproducts from previous synthetic steps to allow for the gene...