US Patent Issued to HUBEI UNIVERSITY on Nov. 11 for "Pfu DNA polymerase mutants with reverse transcriptase activity and their applications" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,041, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to HUBEI UNIVERSITY (Wuhan, China).

"Pfu DNA polymerase mutants with reverse transcriptase activity and their applications" was invented by Lixin Ma (Hubei, China), Wanping Chen (Hubei, China), Rui Han (Hubei, China), Fei Wang (Hubei, China), Nianzu He (Hubei, China) and Jiakai Cui (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pfu DNA polymerase mutants with reverse transcriptase activity and their applications are provided. The Pfu DNA polymerase mutants include K467R/F588L/W769R, R382H/Y385H/V390I, I38L/R97M, E665K/E735K, K118I/N713V, with K118I/N713V showing the strongest reverse transcription a...