US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 25 for "Reactions with non-retroviral reverse transcriptase" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,106, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Reactions with non-retroviral reverse transcriptase" was invented by Heather E. Upton (Berkeley, Calif.), Lucas Ferguson (Berkeley, Calif.), Sidney Pimentel (Berkeley, Calif.) and Kathleen Collins (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved compositions and methods for using modified non-retroviral reverse transcriptase to perform 3' extension of a nucleic acid, employ non-templated deoxynucleotide addition to a single-stranded nucleic acid and/or synthesis of complementary DNA using non-complementary nucleic acids as...