US Patent Issued to GENOTECH on Sept. 29 for "DNA polymerase variant with improved discrimination of genetic variants" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,469, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GENOTECH CORP. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"DNA polymerase variant with improved discrimination of genetic variants" was invented by Jae Jong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Si-Kyu Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeounghyun Ryu (Cheongju-si, South Korea), Bo Mi Lee (Nonsan-si, South Korea), Seulki Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Sun Ho Cha (Sejong, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a DNA polymerase variant that belongs to family A, and to a use thereof. The present invention relates to: a DNA polymerase variant which easily undergoes polymerization when the base a...