US Patent Issued to CAMENA BIOSCIENCE on March 31 for "Compositions and methods for template-free geometric enzymatic nucleic acid synthesis" (British, Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,324, issued on March 31, was assigned to CAMENA BIOSCIENCE Ltd. (Little Chesterford, Great Britain).

"Compositions and methods for template-free geometric enzymatic nucleic acid synthesis" was invented by Derek L. Stemple (Newton, Mass.), Andrew G. Fraser (Toronto), Sylwia Mankowska (Essex, Great Britain) and Neil Bell (Essex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are compositions and methods for template-free nucleic acid synthesis using N-mers and/or anchor primers that comprise at least one XNA or a combination of RNA and DNA."

The patent was filed on Jan. 13, 2020, under Application No. 17/422,967.

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