US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 29 for "Glycan-binding proteins and related compositions and methods" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,460, issued on July 29, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Glycan-binding proteins and related compositions and methods" was invented by Barbara Imperiali (Cambridge, Mass.), Cristina Zamora (Medford, Mass.) and Elizabeth Ward (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Glycan-binding proteins, and compositions thereof, are generally described, including methods of making and using such proteins. The proteins may include scaffolds based on easily evolvable DNA-binding proteins, with binding sites able to specifically bind to mono- or disaccharides, such as monosaccharide-binding determina...