ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,044, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Genovis AB (Lund, Sweden).
"Protease and binding polypeptide for O-glycoproteins" was invented by Fredrik Leo (Kaevlinge, Sweden), Rolf Lood-Alayon (Kaevlinge, Sweden), Stephan Bjork (Kaevlinge, Sweden), Malin Mejare (Kaevlinge, Sweden) and Fredrik Olsson (Kavlinge, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a novel endoprotease, mutants thereof having binding but lacking or having reduced hydrolyzing activity, and use in methods of studying and isolating O-linked glycoproteins."
The patent was filed on Dec. 22, 2022, under Application No. 18/145,807.
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