US Patent Issued to Bruker Daltonics on Sept. 30 for "Methods for determining isomeric amino acid residues of proteins and peptides" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,219, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co. KG (Bremen, Germany).

"Methods for determining isomeric amino acid residues of proteins and peptides" was invented by Detlev Suckau (Grasberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a mass spectrometric method for determining isomeric amino acid residues of a peptide and comprises the steps of: generating a list of peptide candidates using the amino acid lead sequence of the peptide, said lead sequence comprising positions of determined amino acid residues and at least one position with undetermined isomeric amino acid residues; pre...