US Patent Issued to DUKE UNIVERSITY on Dec. 30 for "Engineered polymerases and methods of using the same" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,668, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to DUKE UNIVERSITY (Durham, N.C.).

"Engineered polymerases and methods of using the same" was invented by Lorena S. Beese (Durham, N.C.), You Wang (Durham, N.C.) and Yuqian Shi (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to fusion proteins and methods of using the same. Specifically, invention relates to fusion proteins comprising an intein and a DNA polymerase, and methods of using the same for DNA synthesis."

The patent was filed on Jan. 26, 2021, under Application No. 18/021,270.

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