US Patent Issued to Life Technologies on June 24 for "Polymerase compositions, methods of making and using same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,465, issued on June 24, was assigned to Life Technologies Corp. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Polymerase compositions, methods of making and using same" was invented by Peter Vander Horn (Encinitas, Calif.), Theo Nikiforov (Carlsbad, Calif.), Guobin Luo (Oceanside, Calif.), Mindy Landes (Carlsbad, Calif.), Daniel Mazur (San Diego), Eileen Tozer (San Diego) and Tommie Lincecum (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, modified polymerases and biologically active fragment thereof are provided ...