US Patent Issued on April 29 for "Mutant DNA polymerase(s) with improved strand displacement ability" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,651, issued on April 29.

"Mutant DNA polymerase(s) with improved strand displacement ability" was invented by Feruz Kurbanov (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are DNA polymerases having increased 5'-3' strand displacement activity and substantially reduced 5'-3' exonuclease and endonuclease activity relative to a corresponding, unmodified polymerase. The polymerases are useful in a variety of disclosed primer extension methods. Also disclosed are related compositions, including recombinant nucleic acids, vectors, and host cells, which are useful, e.g., for production of the DNA polymerases."

The patent w...