US Patent Issued to Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics UAB on Oct. 21 for "Mutant polymerases and methods of using the same" (Lithuanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,612, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics UAB (Vilnius, Lithuania).

"Mutant polymerases and methods of using the same" was invented by Arvydas Lubys (Vilnius, Lithuania), Zana Kapustina (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Aiste Jaspone (Vilnius, Lithuania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to mutant polymerases. This application discloses mutant phage-type RNA polymerases, such as a mutant T7, SP6, and T3 RNA polymerase, may use 2'-modified nucleoside triphosphates or deoxynucleotide triphosphates as substrates. Methods for producing nucleic acid molecules using these mutant polymerases are al...