ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,779, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN E.V. (Berlin) and LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT MUNCHEN (Munich).

"Chemoselective thiol-conjugation with alkene or alkyne-phosphonothiolates and -phosphonates" was invented by Christian Hackenberger (Berlin), Alice Leonie Baumann (Berlin), Marc-Andre Kasper (Munich), Stephen Byrne (Sydney), Jonas Helma-Smets (Munich), Heinrich Leonhardt (Munich), Tina Stoscheck (Munich), Marcus Gerlach (Munich) and Dominik Schumacher (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are novel conjugates and processes for the preparation thereof. A process for the preparation of alkene-o...