US Patent Issued to MGI Holdings on July 28 for "Enzymatic synthesis of oligonucleotides" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,526, issued on July 28, was assigned to MGI Holdings Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Enzymatic synthesis of oligonucleotides" was invented by Benjamin Allred (San Jose, Calif.) and Handong Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are compositions and methods directed to using a short template and a polymerase or ligase to synthesize an oligonucleotide. The template is designed such that only one nucleotide is added to the primer in each round of synthesis."

The patent was filed on Nov. 30, 2020, under Application No. 17/769,998.

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