ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,736, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Universitetet I Tromso-Norges Arktiske Universitet (Langnes, Norway).
"Marine DNA polymerase I" was invented by Atle Noralf Larsen (Kvaloya, Norway) and Yvonne Piotrowski (Tromso, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to DNA polymerases. In particular, the present invention relates to heat labile DNA polymerases of marine origin, having high polymerase activity, strand displacement activity and 3-5' exonuclease activity. Furthermore, the present invention provides heat labile DNA polymerases substantially without strand-displacement activity."
The patent was fil...