ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,958, issued on April 14, was assigned to PRIMROSE BIO INC. (San Diego).

"Methods and compositions for manufacturing polynucleotides" was invented by Dongxin Karen Xu (San Diego), Kadir Chir Tung (Poway, Calif.), Sabrina Baffert (San Diego), Alan Greener (San Diego) and Helge Zieler (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for polynucleotide synthesis in vitro, specifically the use of single-subunit RNA polymerases for synthesis and manufacturing of RNA."

The patent was filed on May 23, 2020, under Application No. 17/614,286.

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