US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Aug. 5 for "Single-molecule protein and peptide sequencing" (Massachusetts, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,380, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Single-molecule protein and peptide sequencing" was invented by Daniel Masao Estandian (Cambridge, Mass.), Alexi Georges Choueiri (Chandler, Ariz.), Edward Stuart Boyden (Chestnut Hill, Mass.) and Asmamaw Wassie (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description provides methods, assays and reagents useful for sequencing proteins. Sequencing proteins in a broad sense involves observing the plausible identity and order of amino acids, which is useful for sequencing single polypeptide molecules or multiple molecules of a single ...