ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,324, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University Erica Campus (Ansan-si, South Korea).

"Triazine-based amphiphilic compound and use thereof" was invented by Pil Seok Chae (Ansan-si, South Korea) and Lubna Ghani (Ansan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to: a newly developed triazine-cored amphiphilic compound; a preparation method therefor; and a method for extracting, solubilizing, stabilizing, crystallizing or analyzing membrane proteins by using the same. In addition, the compound enables membrane proteins, which have various structures ...