US Patent Issued to B. G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS, AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY on July 15 for "Recombinant flavin-adenine dinucleotide glucose dehydrogenase and uses thereof" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,238, issued on July 15, was assigned to B. G. NEGEV TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS LTD., AT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY (Beer Sheva, Israel).

"Recombinant flavin-adenine dinucleotide glucose dehydrogenase and uses thereof" was invented by Lital Alfonta (Omer, Israel), Raz Zarivach (Beer Sheva, Israel), Jennifer Grushka (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Itay Algov (Kadima, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A polypeptide comprising a residue substituted by a non-canonical amino acid (ncAA) is provided. Methods for: (a) transferring an electron to an electrode, by coupling the polypeptide to an electrode; and (b) quantifying the amount of an analyte ...