US Patent Issued to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY on Dec. 9 for "Method for the preparation of oligonucleotides" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,220, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal).

"Method for the preparation of oligonucleotides" was invented by Masad Damha (Montreal), Tomislav Friscic (Verdun, Canada), Daniel O'Reilly (Hants, Great Britain) and James Thorpe (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided herein, processes for synthesizing oligonucleotides using mechanochemical force to induce the formation of internucleotide linkages."

The patent was filed on May 26, 2021, under Application No. 17/433,460.

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