US Patent Issued to TAKARA BIO, EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION KANSAI BUNRI SOUGOUGAKUEN, KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY on Nov. 25 for "Heat resistant mismatch endonuclease variant" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,132, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TAKARA BIO INC. (Shiga, Japan), EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION KANSAI BUNRI SOUGOUGAKUEN (Shiga, Japan) and KYUSHU UNIVERSITY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Corp. (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Heat resistant mismatch endonuclease variant" was invented by Hiroyuki Matsumoto (Otsu, Japan), Takashi Uemori (Otsu, Japan), Tsuyoshi Shirai (Nagahama, Japan), Yoshizumi Ishino (Fukuoka, Japan) and Sonoko Ishino (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a GG-specific mismatch endonuclease variant, a TT-specific mismatch endonuclease variant, and a GT/TG-specific mismatch endonuclease variant. The ...