US Patent Issued to Molecular Partners on Oct. 7 for "Designed ankyrin repeat domains with altered surface residues" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,445, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Molecular Partners AG (Zurich-Schlieren, Switzerland).

"Designed ankyrin repeat domains with altered surface residues" was invented by Hans Kaspar Binz (Zurich-Schlieren, Switzerland), Johannes Schilling (Ehrendingen, Switzerland), Patrik Forrer (Steinen, Switzerland), Victor Levitsky (Birmensdorf, Switzerland), Natalia Venetz (Zurich) and Marcel Walser (Winterthur, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to designed ankyrin repeat domains with altered surface residues, as well as to proteins comprising such a designed ankyrin repeat domain, nucleic acids encoding...