US Patent Issued to Brandeis University on March 17 for "Reagents for improving PCR accuracy" (Massachusetts, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,626, issued on March 17, was assigned to Brandeis University (Waltham, Mass.).

"Reagents for improving PCR accuracy" was invented by John Rice (Quincy, Mass.), Lawrence Wangh (Auburndale, Mass.), Arthur H. Reis Jr. (Arlington, Mass.), Kenneth Pierce (Natick, Mass.), Cristina Hartshorn (West Roxbury, Mass.), J. Aquiles Sanchez (Framingham, Mass.), Stephen Van Hooser (Sudbury, Mass.) and Skye Fishbein (Catonsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are reagents for improving PCR accuracy."

The patent was filed on Sept. 28, 2021, under Application No. 17/487,945.

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