US Patent Issued to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory on Feb. 18 for "Modified template-independent DNA polymerase" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,775, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Modified template-independent DNA polymerase" was invented by Andrew P. Magyar (Arlington, Mass.), Peter Cavanagh (Stanford, Calif.), Miles Rogers (Cambridge, Mass.), Kirsty A. McFarland (Melrose, Mass.), Melissa M. Sprachman (Somerville, Mass.), Amanda Nicole Billings-Siuti (Framingham, Mass.) and Nicole E. Raustad (Charlestown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are genetically engineered template-independent DNA polymerases, specifically terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferases, and methods of using these polymera...