US Patent Issued to BACHEM on July 21 for "Apparatus for the synthesis of oligonucleotides and process for the preparation thereof" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,987, issued on July 21, was assigned to BACHEM AG (Bubendorf, Switzerland).

"Apparatus for the synthesis of oligonucleotides and process for the preparation thereof" was invented by Andreas Aemissegger (Pratteln, Switzerland), Branislav Dugovic (Bern, Switzerland), Mario Jauker (Loerrach, Germany) and Martin Stauss (Rheinfelden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides apparatuses and methods for the synthesis of oligonucleotides and related compounds. In particular, the present invention allows to effectively prepare reagents to be fed into an apparatus for the synthesis of such oligomers."

The patent w...