US Patent Issued to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE on April 15 for "Amino acid-specific binder and selectively identifying an amino acid" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,760, issued on April 15, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Amino acid-specific binder and selectively identifying an amino acid" was invented by Jennifer A. Tullman (Germantown, Md.), Zvi Kelman (Gaithersburg, Md.) and John P. Marino (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An amino acid-specific binder selectively binds to a binding amino acid. A binder complex selectively identifies the binding amino acid and includes an adjunct attached to the amino acid-specific binder. The adjunct includes a taggant, protein, substrate, or chemic...