ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,193, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Istituto Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare (Rome), Fondazione Telethon (Rome) and Universita Degli Studid Di Trento (Trento, Italy).

"Method for identifying intermediates" was invented by Pietro Faccioli (Verona, Italy) and Emiliano Biasini (Trento, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying target protein folding intermediates, suitable to be tested as targets for drug discovery procedures. The method is carried out by means of electronic computing. The method provides a step of modelling a sequence in time of events defining a folding pathway of a protein, which includes modelling...