US Patent Issued to AbClonal Science on Sept. 30 for "Taq DNA polymerase variants with increased reverse transcriptase activity" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,630, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to AbClonal Science Inc. (Woburn, Mass.).

"Taq DNA polymerase variants with increased reverse transcriptase activity" was invented by Zhenyu Zhu (Lynnfield, Mass.), Dapeng Sun (Lexington, Mass.), Aine Quimby (Newburyport, Mass.), Nicholas J. DeBerardinis (Melrose, Mass.) and Krista Ferrari (Dunstable, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Taq DNA polymerase mutants exhibiting reverse transcriptase activity compared to wild type polymerase were engineered, characterized, and selected via polymerase chain reactions visualized via electrophoresis on agarose gels. Initial screening was followed up wi...