US Patent Issued to 10X GENOMICS on July 28 for "PUMA1 polymerases and uses thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,484, issued on July 28, was assigned to 10X GENOMICS INC. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"PUMA1 polymerases and uses thereof" was invented by Lorita Boghospor (Lathrop, Calif.) and Yufeng Qian (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates in some aspects to recombinant polymerases, variant PumA1 polymerases, and compositions thereof. Also provided herein are methods of using the recombinant polymerases and/or variant PumA1 polymerases for nucleic acid amplification (e.g., rolling circle amplification). In some aspects, the compositions and methods disclosed herein provide more robust amplification (e.g., RC...