ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,860, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to DNA Script (Le Kremlin Bicetre, France).
"Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase variants and uses thereof" was invented by Mikhael Soskine (Franconville, France) and Elise Champion (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) variants from a variety of species which display enhanced efficiency in incorporating reversibly blocked nucleoside triphosphates into a polynucleotide, and to the use of such TdTs in synthesizing polynucleotides of any predetermined sequence."
The patent was filed on April 16, 2021, under Applicati...