US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITETET I TROMSO-NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET on March 24 for "Method and kit for assembly of multiple DNA fragments at room temperature" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,155, issued on March 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITETET I TROMSO-NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET (Lagnes, Norway).

"Method and kit for assembly of multiple DNA fragments at room temperature" was invented by Yvonne Piotrowski (Tromso, Norway) and Atle Noralf Larsen (Kvaloya, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to recombinant DNA technology, in particular to methods for assembling two or more double stranded (ds) nucleic acid molecules with overlapping terminal sequences. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of a thermolabile DNA polymerase II derived 3'-5' exonuclease isolated from Morite...