US Patent Issued to ABCLONAL SCIENCE on March 25 for "Mutant Taq polymerase providing faster amplification" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,590, issued on March 25, was assigned to ABCLONAL SCIENCE INC. (Woburn, Mass.).

"Mutant Taq polymerase providing faster amplification" was invented by Zhenyu Zhu (Lynnfield, Mass.) and Dapeng Sun (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention includes a mutant Taq polymerase, which can significantly extend and amplify a target sequence where the extension conditions are time limited to as little as one second. The mutant Taq polymerase, or a biologically active fragment thereof, has one or more substitutions differing from the wild type as shown in Table I."

The patent was filed on Nov. 3, 2023, under Application No...