US Patent Issued to Fapon Biotech on April 22 for "NS1-binding protein" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,157, issued on April 22, was assigned to Fapon Biotech Inc. (Shenzhen, China).

"NS1-binding protein" was invented by Peng Cui (Dongguan, China), Zhiqiang He (Dongguan, China), Yuan Meng (Dongguan, China) and Dongmei Zhong (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an isolated binding protein including an antigen binding domain binding to an NS1 protein, and including specific heavy chain CDR and light chain CDR. The binding protein can specifically identify and bind to NS1, and has relatively high sensitivity and specificity, so as to detect dengue vims. Moreover, the binding protein does not need to be produced by in...