US Patent Issued to JSR, JSR Life Sciences, JSR MICRO on Sept. 30 for "Immunoglobulin-binding protein, and affinity carrier using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,451, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to JSR Corp. (Minato-ku, Japan), JSR Life Sciences LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and JSR MICRO N.V. (Leuven, Belgium).

"Immunoglobulin-binding protein, and affinity carrier using same" was invented by Tomoaki Haga (Minato-ku, Japan), Takashi Ichii (Minato-ku, Japan), Shunsuke Onogi (Minato-ku, Japan), Satoshi Nakamura (Minato-ku, Japan), Toshinari Honda (Minato-ku, Japan) and Tomoyuki Kamide (Minato-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An affinity carrier may have improved alkali resistance. An immunoglobulin-binding protein containing a mutant polypeptide chain, as well as an affinity carrier con...