US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Feb. 10 for "Horseshoe crab-derived recombinant factor G and method of measuring Beta-glucan using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,711, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Horseshoe crab-derived recombinant factor G and method of measuring Beta-glucan using same" was invented by Yotaro Yamamoto (Amagasaki, Japan), Takeshi Kitagawa (Amagasaki, Japan) and Hiroki Fukuchi (Amagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to "a heterodimer which combines a Factor G Alpha-subunit containing an amino acid sequence that is the same as or substantially the same as an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 4 with a Factor G Beta-subunit containing an amino acid sequence that is the same as or subs...