ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,328, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BELYNTIC GMBH (Berlin).

"Method for modification of peptides immobilized on a solid support by traceless reductively cleavable linker molecules" was invented by Robert Zitterbart (Berlin) and Oliver Reimann (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for modifying and purifying peptides comprising an immobilizing step, a modification step and a releasing step. In the immobilizing step, a crude linker-tagged peptide L-P is coupled to a solid support yielding an immobilized linker-tagged peptide S-L-P. Subsequently, the immobilized linker-tagged peptide S-L-P ...