ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,906, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Aummune Ltd. (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

"Methods and compositions for selection of functional aptamers" was invented by Yaniv Amir (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Almogit Abu-Horowitz (Herzliya, Israel), Ido Bachelet (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Liron Anna Bassali (Milan), Elinor Debby (Herzliya, Israel), Liron Levy Efrati (Herzliya, Israel), Erez Lavi (Yavne, Israel), Omer Levy (Bat Yam, Israel), Noam Mamet Kedem (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel), Anastasia Paz (Ashdod, Israel), Neria Reiss (Dolev, Israel), Itai Rusinek (Holon, Israel), Ye'ela Scharff (Givatayim, Israel) and Nir Skalka (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent...