ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,477, issued on April 1, was assigned to GENNEXT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

"Opto-fluidic array for radical protein foot-printing" was invented by Scot Randy Weinberger (Montara, Calif.), Robert Wallace Egan (Reno, Nev.), Jeffrey Johnathan Persoff (San Jose, Calif.), Emily Elizabeth Chea (Pacifica, Calif.), Tan Huu Bui (San Mateo, Calif.) and David Allan Holman (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of in vivo and in vitro radical protein foot-printing using an opto-fluidic array are presented. These teachings may be used to, for example, study three-dimensional protein structure or bio-kine...