US Patent Issued to Vibrant Holdings on June 3 for "Methods of synthesizing a polynucleotide array using photoactivated agents" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,712, issued on June 3, was assigned to Vibrant Holdings LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods of synthesizing a polynucleotide array using photoactivated agents" was invented by John J. Rajasekaran (Hillsborough, Calif.), Vasanth Jayaraman (San Mateo, Calif.), Anirudh Venugopal (San Mateo, Calif.), Kang Bei (San Mateo, Calif.), Tianhao Wang (San Mateo, Calif.), Karthik Krishna (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Hari Krishnan Krishnamurthy (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods for the synthesis of DNA polynucleotides and polynucleotides, as well as methods for their deprotection and methods for the use of...