US Patent Issued to NIPPON SHOKUBAI, OSAKA UNIVERSITY on Aug. 11 for "Production of bridged artificial nucleosides" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,719, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NIPPON SHOKUBAI Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).

"Production of bridged artificial nucleosides" was invented by Takeshi Baba (Osaka, Japan), Hiroshi Okamoto (Osaka, Japan), Yumi Nomura (Osaka, Japan), Satoshi Obika (Osaka, Japan) and Takao Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for producing a compound represented by formula (III) from a compound represented by formula (I) as a starting material."

The patent was filed on March 31, 2020, under Application No. 17/601,326.

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