ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,468, issued on April 29, was assigned to Avacta Life Sciences Ltd. (Wetherby, Great Britain).
"Scaffold proteins" was invented by Geoffrey William Platt (Wetherby, Great Britain) and Graham Robert Pye-Smith Spence (Wetherby, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a polypeptide, such as an Affimer polypeptide, comprising an amino acid sequence having at least 80% identity to amino acid residues 1 to 11, 13 to 15, 17 to 19, 21 to 25, 27 to 28, 35 to 37, 39, 41, 43 to 44, 46 to 47, 49 to 50, 52 to 53, 55 to 58, 63 to 64, 66, 68 to 82, 84 to 85, and 87 to 98 of SEQ ID NO: 1; characterized in that said polype...