ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,096, issued on June 17, was assigned to George Mason Research Foundation Inc. (Fairfax, Va.).

"Binding domain mapping and compounds, compositions, complexes, methods, and kits related thereto" was invented by Lance Liotta (Fairfax, Va.), Alessandra Luchini Kunkel (Fairfax, Va.), Amanda Still (Fairfax, Va.) and Mikell Paige (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to compounds, complexes, compositions, kits and methods for determining interacting and/or binding sites between e.g., proteins, proteins and nucleic acids, proteins and small molecules, or intrachain protein domains. The disclosure provide...