US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS on Jan. 27 for "Synthetic oligonucleotides having regions of block and cluster modifications" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,724, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (Westborough, Mass.).

"Synthetic oligonucleotides having regions of block and cluster modifications" was invented by Anastasia Khvorova (Westborough, Mass.), Loic Maurice Rene Jean Roux (Worcester, Mass.) and Ken Yamada (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to novel modified oligonucleotides with increased stability. The universal modified nucleotide sequences to increase the stability of an oligonucleotide are also provided."

The patent was filed on May 26, 2021, under Application No. 17/331,146.

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