US Patent Issued to Promega on May 6 for "Polymerase inhibitors and related compositions and methods" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,511, issued on May 6, was assigned to Promega Corp. (Madison, Wis.).

"Polymerase inhibitors and related compositions and methods" was invented by Wenhui Zhou (Madison, Wis.), Kimberly K. Knoche (Madison, Wis.), Douglas R. Storts (Madison, Wis.), Min Zhou (Madison, Wis.) and Poncho Meisenheimer (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes compositions and methods for improved DNA amplification reactions. In particular, the present disclosure provides compositions and methods for hot-start PCR applications using DNA polymerase inhibitors that minimize non-specific DNA amplification by inactivating DNA p...