US Patent Issued to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften, Universitat Heidelberg on Dec. 16 for "Site-specific, kinetically inert conjugation of labels and/or carriers to target molecules such as his-tagged proteins via metal complex reagents" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,423, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (Munich) and Universitat Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Site-specific, kinetically inert conjugation of labels and/or carriers to target molecules such as his-tagged proteins via metal complex reagents" was invented by Amelie S. Benk (Stuttgart, Germany), Lucia T. Benk (Stuttgart, Germany), Seraphine Wegner (Munster, Germany), Peter Comba (Wiesenbach, Germany) and Joachim P. Spatz (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to means and methods for conjugating/attaching target molecules such a...