US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on April 7 for "High efficiency, small volume nucleic acid synthesis" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,500, issued on April 7, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"High efficiency, small volume nucleic acid synthesis" was invented by Todd Peterson (Coronado, Calif.), Axel Trefzer (Tegernheim, Germany) and Thomas Poehmerer (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally relates to compositions and methods for the production of nucleic acid molecules. In some aspects, the invention allows for the microscale generation of nucleic acid molecules, optionally followed by assembly of these nucleic acid molecules into larger molecules. In some aspects, the invention allows for efficient pro...