ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,930, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Polymerase compositions and kits, and methods of using and making the same" was invented by Daniel Mazur (San Diego), Sihong Chen (Vista, Calif.), Peter Vander Horn (Encinitas, Calif.), Eileen Tozer (San Diego), Guobin Luo (Carlsbad, Calif.), Joshua Shirley (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Kevin Heinemann (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, kits, systems and apparatus that are useful for nucleic acid polymerization. In particular, recombinant polymerases and biologically active fragments there...