US Patent Issued to CZ Biohub SF, The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University on March 25 for "Compositions and methods for screening aptamers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,558, issued on March 25, was assigned to CZ Biohub SF LLC (San Francisco) and The Board of Trustees of The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods for screening aptamers" was invented by Trevor Feagin (Stanford, Calif.), Diana Wu (Stanford, Calif.), Peter Mage (Stanford, Calif.), John Coller (Stanford, Calif.) and Hyongsok Tom Soh (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to methods and compositions for screening a library of aptamers for aptamers having a binding affinity to a target molecule. The methods and compositions described herein utilize a throughput ap...