ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,042, issued on July 15, was assigned to BAYER AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"Identifying the pairing of variable domains of light and heavy chains of antibodies" was invented by Michael Strerath (Dusseldorf, Germany), Christian Bender (Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany), Johanna Volker (Berlin) and Julio Cesar Bolivar Lopez (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the identification of antibodies and/or antibody fragments in a selection process. The present invention relates to a method, a system and a computer program product for identifying pairs of genes which encode the variable domains of light a...