ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,007, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Nagase Viita Co. Ltd. (Okayama, Japan).

"Method for producing target protein" was invented by Koichi Harazono (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method which can produce a target protein while stably maintaining a vector without any special genetic manipulation of host cells and without use of a drug resistance gene or the like. A method for producing a target protein including culturing cells transformed with a vector, the vector containing a gene of the target protein and not containing an antibiotic resistance gene, a recombinase recognition sequence, or a gene essent...