ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,627, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KAWASAKI INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Peptide-nucleic acid complex" was invented by Shingo Ueno (Kawasaki, Japan) and Takanori Ichiki (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for producing a peptide-nucleic acid complex containing a peptide and a nucleic acid encoding the peptide. The method for producing a peptide-nucleic acid complex includes a step of preparing a nucleic acid to which a transpeptidase N-terminal substrate motif has been added, the nucleic acid containing a first coding sequence encoding a peptide, a second coding s...