ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,381, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Qiagen Beverly LLC (Beverly, Mass.).
"Thermostable viral reverse transcriptase" was invented by Suhman Chung (South Hamilton, Mass.), David Mark Schuster (Poolesville, Md.) and Thomas William Schoenfeld (Topsfield, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides novel engineered reverse transcriptase enzymes that afford beneficial improvements in thermal stability, processivity, cDNA yields and elimination of secondary enzymatic activity. The present invention also provides methods for amplifying template nucleic acids using such reverse transcriptase enzymes. This invention...