US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on Sept. 8 for "Method of synthesizing single-stranded nucleotide sequence, blocked nucleoside triphosphates and related methods" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,217, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Method of synthesizing single-stranded nucleotide sequence, blocked nucleoside triphosphates and related methods" was invented by Jean-Alexandre Richard (Singapore) and Xi Lin (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method of synthesizing a single-stranded nucleotide sequence, the method comprising adding a blocked nucleoside triphosphate to an initiator nucleotide sequence to incorporate a corresponding blocked nucleotide thereto in the presence of a polymerase, wherein the blocked nucleoside triphosphate has one o...