US Patent Issued to BONDWELL TECHNOLOGIES on July 1 for "Functionalized UBX protein materials for enhanced purification of antibodies" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,638, issued on July 1, was assigned to BONDWELL TECHNOLOGIES LP (College Station, Texas).

"Functionalized UBX protein materials for enhanced purification of antibodies" was invented by Sarah E. Bondos (College Station, Texas) and David W. Howell (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods and compositions for purifying antibodies. Purification is achieved by increasing the binding capacity of protein A chromatography by covalent attachment of a protein A domain (E, D, A, B, C), or domain Z, or a functional variant thereof, to Drosophila melanogaster transcription factor Ultrabithorax (Ubx) materi...